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Whitehorse man has been sentenced to five years in federal prison for his role in what police called one of the most significant organized crime investigations in Yukon. Dubbed “Operation Monolith,” the RCMP investigation led to multiple arrests and the seizure of large quantities of drugs and weapons in November 2013. In Yukon territorial court Friday Jesse Ritchie, 36, was sentenced to five years and seven months in prison. With credit for the time he has already spent behind bars, Ritchie has five years left in his sentence. Ritchie was one of the “higherups” in the organization, Crown prosecutor Eric Marcoux told the court. He admitted to being involved in trafficking marijuana and cocaine on different occasions throughout the police investigation. That includes a total of three kilograms of cocaine and more than 80 pounds (36 kilograms) of marijuana. The drugs were worth a total of more than $400,000, the court
heard. As part of their investigation, police got information from a former drug dealer turned informant. His name, and any information that could identify him, is protected under a publication ban. Ritchie pleaded guilty last year. By doing that he prevented a long and expensive trial, Marcoux said. Six weeks had been set aside for a trial. Another two weeks were booked for a Charter application by Ritchie, he said. The sentence was recommended by both the Crown and Ritchie’s lawyer, and judge Donald Luther agreed. He called the sentence “fair and appropriate” under the circumstances. Ritchie’s lawyer, Mark Jette, presented the court with a stack of letters from friends and family written in support of Ritchie. Formerly from Surrey, B.C., Ritchie moved to the Yukon around 2005 and ran a health and wellness business selling products like vitamins and protein shakes. Jette said his client is “someone who has taken a hard fall and has recognized his mistakes, is remourseful, did enter a guilty plea, and has this wonderful support from people who have been able to
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Whitehorse Chamber of Commerce calls for freeze on municipal taxes Myles Dolphin News Reporter
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he president of the Whitehorse Chamber of Commerce says he doesn’t believe the City of Whitehorse can justify its proposed property tax increase for 2016. “Yukon’s economy has shown a GDP decline for the past three years,” Rick Karp told members of city council on Monday evening. “And it’ll probably show a decline this year, as well. We don’t believe this is the time to increase taxes.” Your typical Whitehorse homeowner will pay another $39 in property taxes this year, provided that the City passes its 2016 operating budget. The average Whitehorse business, meanwhile, would pay an extra $250 in taxes this year. For both households and businesses, it’s a 1.7 per cent increase, the same as in 2015. Karp said local businesses are having a tough time because of the poor Canadian economy. “They’ve had to make some hard
decisions to reduce their expenses and cut back wherever necessary to stay viable,” he added. He said he wants the City to cut back, too. He’s also recommending that it follow Yellowknife’s example. Members of city council for the Northwest Territories capital voted in December to not raise taxes in 2016, the same as in 2015. But the cuts come at a cost. According to Northern News Services, members of council cut $570,000 that would have gone towards a splash park adjacent to Somba K’e Civic Plaza, a move that disappointed mayor Mark Heyck. They also cut a computer program to track bylaw enforcement officers for $67,000, which Heyck called “troubling.” The last year Whitehorse did not increase taxes was in 2003, according to the City’s website. There has been a property tax increase every year since then. Karp argued the City of Whitehorse could get away with no tax increase because of its budget surpluses over the years. The city saw an annual surplus of $2 million in 2014. It also had
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Rick Karp, president of the Whitehorse Chamber of Commerce, says that a sluggish economy is hurting local businesses, and the city’s proposed property tax hike will cause further pain. surpluses in 2012 and 2013. In 2014 the City’s reserves had grown to $28 million, up from $14 million in 2009. “We feel there are sufficient
finances there now to proceed with the building (consolidation project) and yet not have a tax increase,” Karp said. “Look carefully at the budgeting
process that is in place now and where there’s a possibility of saving some money.” One of Karp’s suggestions was to possibly decrease the number of employees who work for the City, 377 of whom are full-time, he said. Financial services manager Valerie Braga said later in an email that she heard early on from members of council they were not interested in cutting major programs or services, “but that they wanted administration to explore operational efficiencies to provide best value to citizens. “Consistent with past years, Finance worked with all departments to ensure that this direction was followed and prioritized the required service funding with the City Services Policy. If the City were to enact a zero per cent property tax increase, over $600,000 in services would have to be cut. “This would require council to make large service adjustments.” Second and third reading of the operating budget will be held on March 29. Contact Myles Dolphin at myles@yukon-news.com
Yukon’s own Elvis Presley to run for office again Maura Forrest News Reporter
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ukon’s own Elvis Presley is running for the third time as an independent candidate in Pelly-Nisutlin during this year’s territorial election. He said he wants to boost tourism in Ross River and help the Yukon adapt to a changing climate. Presley, born Gilbert Nelles, is 61 years old and said he feels like he’s getting younger all the time.
City considers charging charities tipping fees The City of Whitehorse is examining the possibility of limiting what some non-profit organizations can drop off at the landfill for free. Since 1999, the City has exempted tipping fees at its landfill for Raven Recycling, Mary House and the Salvation Army. The practice is in place for reusable items only. But late last year, it became apparent that a large volume of non-reusable items, such as construction and electronic waste, was also being dropped off. More than $56,000 was waived for Raven Recycling last year alone, said councillor Betty Irwin at Monday’s meeting. Environmental coordinator Bryna Cable explained that the nonprofit had done some work in its yard, which accounted for the large amount of waste. But it’s not common for that to happen every year, she added. Members of council have the option to limit the exemption to reusable goods only, to discontinue
“I think I can benefit the Yukon still, like I always have,” he said. Presley has spent the last several years working on Graceland II, a property in Ross River named after his own namesake’s famous home. He sees the property as a major tourist attraction, and it’s central to his campaign. “It’s like living inside a living energy, spraying from the walls and the ceilings,” he said of the site, which he describes as “more beautiful than the Sistine Chapel.” Graceland II is certainly striking. The lawn is full of raised beds
and whimsical creations made of painted wood. The walls inside the main building are painted in bright colours and covered with artwork. Presley said there are also several cabins and an underground bunker. He said tourists have already visited from Germany, Austria and elsewhere in Europe. “It will benefit all the businesses that are around here. ... It just benefits everyone.” He said he’d also like to start a business bottling water, which
would be called Kaska Coolers. “Water is such an important resource that everybody needs right now on the planet,” he said. “It would create jobs and also it would be something that people would be ready for.” Presley said he plans to campaign door-to-door, and he wants to show people a DVD he made of Graceland II “to show what is possible when you put your mind to it.” Presley has run as an independent candidate twice before, in 2011 and 2006. He has finished
last both times, with 31 votes in 2011 and 40 votes in 2006. Pelly-Nisutlin is currently held by Economic Development Minister Stacey Hassard, who garnered 275 votes in the last election. But Presley does believe he can make a difference through politics. “Politics is just dealing with people, and I’ve dealt with people my whole life,” he said. “It’s my life, and you might as well benefit people while you’re living.”
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make contact with the woman’s legs and punctured the skin. She continued to run and eventually crossed the bridge over McIntyre Creek near Yukon College. The coyote didn’t follow. She was shaken by what happened but not badly injured, Johnstone said. She was treated at Whitehorse General Hospital and released. Conservation officers will be patrolling the area where the incident happened to keep an eye on things, Johnstone said. For animals like coyotes it can be instinctual to chase things that are running, he said. It’s a predator versus prey reaction. The best response in this type of situation is not to run, he said. Instead a person should back away slowly while maintaining eye contact and shouting. It’s also a good idea to carry bear spray when walking in the greenbelt areas and to make sure pets are on a leash. Yukon Environment offers more advice on its website at www.env.gov.yk.ca.
Premier replaces two deputy ministers
home on Tuesday, called his departure a “parting of the ways,” and said he plans to “take stock a little bit” before deciding what to do next. This latest announcement means the government has made at least 10 changes to deputy minister appointments in the last year. In April 2015, the government announced the reassignment of four deputy ministers to the Department of Environment, the public service commission, the executive council office and the Department of Tourism and Culture. In November, four new appointments were made to the executive council office, the Department of Energy, Mines and Resources, the Department of Community Services and the Department of Highways and Public Works. “With these changes I feel confident that the public service has the leadership team that we need for the years ahead,” Premier Darrell Pasloski said in a news release at the time.
(Myles Dolphin) Woman chased by coyote near McIntyre Creek A woman is alright after she was chased by a coyote that nipped at her legs and punctured the skin. Yukon conservation officers put out an advisory Tuesday reminding the public to be aware of their surroundings when walking in greenbelt areas in Whitehorse. On Monday morning around 6 a.m. the woman, who has not been identified, was jogging by herself along the trail system near Pine St., in the vicinity of McIntyre Creek. There was very little light and she was wearing a headlamp, conservation officer Kevin Johnstone said. When she came upon a coyote she tried to skirt around it and continue jogging, Johnstone said. The coyote followed. “Of course it turned into a bit of a run when the thing started to pursue her.” At one point the animal did
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Two of Yukon’s deputy ministers have been replaced, and have left the government effective immediately. Justin Ferbey has taken over as deputy minister of economic development, replacing Terry Hayden, who had been in the position since June 2015. Ferbey is also the president of the Yukon Development Corporation. Bruce McLennan has been appointed interim deputy minister of health and social services. He has replaced Paddy Meade, who’d been in the position since February 2013. McLennan has previously served as deputy minister of finance, education, and health and social services. A government spokesperson said she couldn’t comment on the reasons for the changes, adding only that “when senior-level people leave, they leave immediately.” Hayden, who was reached at his
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A Safe Place secures funding Maura Forrest News Reporter
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Whitehorse support program for women and children has secured funding for another year, thanks to a new $59,000 commitment from the Yukon government. A Safe Place has been run out of the Victoria Faulkner Women’s Centre since December 2013, but has struggled to find consistent funding. The new money comes from the Justice Department and the women’s directorate. The Prevention of Violence Against Aboriginal Women Fund will provide an additional $25,000, as part of a commitment from last year. A Safe Place provides women with meals, coffee and a place to spend time on Friday, Saturday and Sunday evenings from 5 to 8 p.m. “The most important piece of the program is it’s lowbarrier,” said Hillary Aitken, program coordinator at the women’s centre. That means all women are welcome, including those who have been drinking or taking drugs, as long as they’re not a danger to themselves or others. Aitken said the program grew out of research from the Yukon Status of Women Coun-
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A Safe Place – a support program for women and children – has been awarded funding from the Yukon government to continue its operations over the next year. cil, which showed a lack of services available for women after Friday at 5 p.m. A Safe Place is meant to fill that gap. Women can come to read or play games, but they’re not obliged to do anything at all. There is a knitting circle once a
month, and a nurse also stops by monthly. Children are welcome as well. Aitken said many of the women who come to A Safe Place are homeless or precariously housed. Many also struggle with food insecurity. She said many women also come for the sense of community, safety and belonging. What she frequently hears from the women, she said, is that “they’re not judged. It’s truly safe and it’s low-barrier and they feel that all women are welcome.” Aitken said between 100 and 120 women typically come to A Safe Place each month. Last weekend, about 45 women showed up. But she said the number Wednesday, Mar 16 & Thursday, Mar 17
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of women can vary widely, in part because funding for the program has been unstable. “When we have the funding and capacity for staff to do direct outreach and promotion ... then attendance does peak,” she said. Pilot funding for A Safe Place ran out in July 2014. The Community Development Fund kicked in some additional money in November of that year to keep the program afloat, but that ran out in July 2015. “As that piece of money was nearing its end, we knew that we couldn’t shut the program down,” Aitken said. Instead, they approached the Justice Department and the women’s directorate, which
gave them a one-time cheque for $39,000 to keep them going till the end of this fiscal year. The Prevention of Violence Against Aboriginal Women Fund also pledged $50,000 over two years. Aitken said this latest $59,000 commitment is enough to keep the program alive for another year. But she said the women’s centre submitted two possible budgets to the government – a “bare-bones” budget and a larger version that would have allowed A Safe Place to expand its services. The government chose the “bare-bones” budget. Aitken added that this is a one-time agreement, but she hopes it will be renewed. Cabinet spokesperson Dan Macdonald said the new funding will sit in the budget for the women’s directorate, though $52,000 was sourced from the Justice Department. He also said the government recognizes the program is providing a valuable service, and has made a commitment to look for ways to continue funding it. Still, Aitken said the fact that A Safe Place needs to exist is evidence of a “disturbing trend.” “It’s horrible that this program needs to exist,” she said. “I wish there would be a time when women don’t need a safe place to come on a weekend, when everyone has secure and stable housing and enough income.” Aitken said the women’s centre is also collecting community donations to support A Safe Place. Donations can be made at www.vfwomenscentre. com. Contact Maura Forrest at maura.forrest@yukon-news.com
Animal shelter gets funds to fix floors, replace boiler
Moore said there was a parvovirus outbreak at the shelter last fall. The disease is treatable, he The Yukon government is conadds, and many dogs that have tributing $22,000 to help the Mae had it have been adopted out to Bachur Animal Shelter improve families. its heating system and prevent Other rooms in the shelter the outbreak of diseases. with concrete floors will also be Part of the work involves sealrepaired, including the main ing up cracks in the floor of the hallway and the back area. shelter’s isolation room, where The shelter is also replacing sick animals are cared for. its aging oil boiler with a more Highly contagious diseases modern propane one. It should such as the parvovirus can sursave the shelter about 25 per cent vive for up to seven years in those in heating costs, Moore said. cracks, according to Dan Moore, The cost to repair the flooring the shelter’s executive director. is about $12,000, he said, while “With those cracks it’s hard to the boiler replacement will be get the sanitizing solutions down closer to $18,000. Fred’s Plumbing there to make sure we’re eliminat- & Heating is also donating $3,000 ing it,” he said. in-kind to install the furnace. “Once we’ve sealed it up we’ll Moore said the balance would be have a good area that’s easy to covered by “generous” donations clean, and we won’t have to worry the shelter has received in the about issues that could be laying past year, especially at Christmas. dormant.” “This year we tripled our projection in donations, and the fiscal year isn’t finished yet,” Moore The Yukon home of said. “The community itself and the general public are really the big supporters of the shelter.”
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uch has been made recently of the Yukon assessment board’s controversial decision to bump Northern Cross’s oil-and-gas exploration project near Eagle Plains to a higher level of assessment. The Yukon Environmental and Socio-economic Assessment Board is now facing criticism from many quarters. The Yukon Chamber of Commerce has accused YESAB of having too few resources and too few experienced people. The Chamber of Mines has said Northern Cross spent an “inordinate amount of time” in YESAB’s review process, and that the process has deteriorated in the last five years. Even the Yukon government is now saying the assessment process has “wavered.” And last week, Northern Cross announced it’s seeking a judicial review of YESAB’s decision to refer the Eagle Plain project to executive committee screening, a more rigorous form of assessment that includes more First Nations consultation. The company says assessors didn’t give it a chance to respond to last-minute concerns that were raised about access to the Porcupine caribou herd. YESAB has refused to respond directly to any of the criticism. But the paper trail generated during Northern Cross’s assessment sheds light on some of the accusations. Northern Cross has complained that it spent 20 months in environmental assessment, only to be sent back to the start of the review process. That is true, more or less. But it’s also true that Northern
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Northern Cross drilling equipment stored on the Dempster Highway in the Eagle Plains area in 2008. Cross took up about 12 months of that time, putting together the information that YESAB required. And it’s also true that the company submitted its response to YESAB’s fourth information request on the very last day it was allowed to, more than 10 months after the request was issued. YESAB spokesperson Rob Yeomans said it’s rare for the board to issue four information requests in the first place. Typically, he said, there might be one. In this case, YESAB sent its first request – a list of 122 questions – to Northern Cross in August 2014. The company responded, but assessors were not satisfied. For instance, in answer to a question about traffic, Northern Cross had written that the Dempster Highway would be affected by “some amount of traffic increase annually.”
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Assessors wanted something more specific. The ball bounced back and forth two more times before YESAB felt it had enough information to move ahead. In October 2014, the proposal went up for public review. First Nations, environmental groups and the Porcupine Caribou Management Board all made comments expressing concern about parts of the project. As a result, YESAB issued a fourth information request to Northern Cross in December 2014. This one asked for new information about various issues, including water, wildlife and waste management. Northern Cross responded in August 2015, but again, assessors said the answers weren’t good enough. The board referred specifically to missing information about caribou.
“There is a lack of consideration of how new access throughout the area will affect hunting pressure on the Porcupine caribou herd,” YESAB wrote. Once again, Northern Cross submitted more documents, but not until Oct. 30, 2015 – the last day before YESAB would have thrown out the application for taking too long. The public was then given another chance to comment before YESAB made its decision. On Dec. 10, after the deadline for public input, Northern Cross responded to some of remaining concerns, which included increased access for hunters. Northern Cross’s argument for seeking a judicial review seems to centre on the fact that the Porcupine Caribou Management Board was allowed to submit comments on Dec. 15, after that public input deadline
had passed. It says it wasn’t given a chance to respond. Yeomans did say that YESAB can issue a new information request to a proponent at any time. In this case, that didn’t happen. “It looks terrible for us ... to be trying to continue more and more cycles of information review,” he explained. But he also said proponents can submit new information of their own accord whenever they want. That didn’t happen either. A cover letter filed with the PCMB’s submission also indicates that Northern Cross knew the comments were going to be accepted after the deadline. As to the broader accusations YESAB is facing, concerning resources and efficiency, the board’s annual reports provide some insight. Federal funding for the assessment board has increased since its inception over a decade ago. YESAB’s budget for the 201415 fiscal year was about $5.2 million, up from about $3.3 million in 2006-07. There is also little evidence to suggest that assessments have gotten slower. The average assessment took 79 days in 2015, up from 74 in 2011. The board, however, will go through a period of transition this year. Currently, two of YESAB’s seven board appointments are empty. Four of the remaining members’ appointments are coming up for renewal this summer. Three board members are nominated by the Council of Yukon First Nations and three are nominated by the Yukon government. The chair is appointed by the federal minister. Contact Maura Forrest at maura.forrest@yukon-news.com
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he Yukon Party has always put jobs and the economy at the front of its agenda – something the opposition has often criticized. So in reading the recent commentary by the NDP, (“The Yukon Party shows us how to not run an economy,� March 9) we find it more than a little ironic. Even so, at least the opposition has finally figured out that jobs and the economy matter to Yukoners. It’s certainly better than their usual fear-mongering and misinformation on things like caring for our seniors, another field that this government has an enviable list of achievements and accomplishments. But as the NDP mentioned, there is an economic record that can be reviewed. So, let’s review that record. Our government has worked relentlessly to defend and advance our resource sector. And we do so because we respect and admire the men and women who work in the industry. We care about their families and we want to see them succeed. We support these Yukon families because we have always understood that mining is about more than mines – it’s about all the other businesses that benefit and the families they support. It’s about the retail sector, our restaurants and service sector, mine servicing companies and more. That’s why we funded the Yukon Mineral Exploration Program for the past several years and we contributed money to the Yukon Mining Alliance to promote Yukon as a world-class mining jurisdiction. In addition, the world-renowned Yukon Geological Survey continues to map Yukon’s mineralization potential and we are planning resource access roads in our key mining regions. While mining remains the cornerstone of our economy, it is far from the only important driver. Our territory is blessed with remarkable entrepreneurs from all different backgrounds and in many fields. Whether it’s tourism – which has benefited from multiple years of government investment in marketing – or the technology and software sector– which has blossomed during our government’s term and will see a $2 million increase to the government IT procurement envelope – the Yukon Party has demonstrated that diversification doesn’t need to come at the expense of the resource sector. It’s worth discussing our approach to diversification, because it is one of those areas that Yukoners can see a clear difference from the Yukon Party versus the approaches put forward by either opposition party. While the other parties talk about diversification as a way to replace resource sector jobs, we view diversification as a way to complement all of our existing
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sectors and create new opportunities for Yukoners and their families. Yukoners shouldn’t be asked to choose between the resource sector and the tourism and IT sectors. The Yukon Party believes that a prosperous economy includes multiple sectors and we don’t believe in pitting one against the other. As for procurement, our record is once again a useful place to look for facts, because as usual, the NDP have cherrypicked to misrepresent government practice to Yukoners. The reality is that from April 1, 2010 to March 31, 2015, the average value of contracts awarded in Yukon was $281 million annually and, on average, $208 million worth of contracts went to Yukon companies. And of the contracts awarded to larger, outside companies, the vast majority of the jobs created went to local subcontractors. Total contracts is another useful measure. So how does the Yukon Party record stack up on that account? Well over that same time frame, Yukon government awarded an average of 4,336 contracts each year. On average, 3,614 of those contracts went to local companies. It may not be something the opposition wants Yukoners to know, but the reality is that the Yukon government, under the Yukon Party leadership, is committed to ensuring our contracting community benefits from capital investments. Which gets us to the next part of our record – year over year massive investments in capital projects. Our government understands that during downturns in the resource sector, it requires capital investment to spur job creation and growth. Our government has also recognized
that there are challenges with procurement. That’s why we struck a committee of local and national experts to listen to the contracting community and make recommendations on how to address issues. But I would also caution anyone from voting for a party that wants to begin inserting political decision making into contracting. Our government firmly believes that Yukon contractors are among the best in the country and that they can win the vast majority of government contracts. And as the facts set out above show, they do win most contracts. As for Faro, the opposition is again misrepresenting contracting practices to Yukoners. No matter how much anyone wants the Yukon government to restrict that contract to Yukon firms, we cannot. The project is funded through federal money and the contract was awarded through a fair and competitive process. What this government did do was ensure that the successful bidder would utilize local labour and capacity opportunities, including the local First Nation. Any political party that promises to limit that contract to local firms either doesn’t understand procurement or is misrepresenting what can be done. So, before Yukoners start buying into fear-mongering disguised as policy, I would ask that they go back to our record. Look at what our government has achieved and how well the Yukon has weathered the recent economic downturn. And when looking at the opposition parties, spend some time assessing what they have said and what positions they have taken. Because what they say in opposition tells you how they will govern. Darrell Pasloski is premier of the Yukon.
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hen does the failure of a parent to provide a child with appropriate medical care become a matter of concern for the state? This is a difficult question that rears its head from time to time. Last year it arose when the family of a young girl from the Six Nations First Nation near Brantford, Ontario abandoned chemotherapy as treatment for her leukemia, despite the fact that continuing such treatment was the difference between probable survival and certain death. The legal proceedings were distracted by the issue of the family’s right to use traditional aboriginal medicine when in reality they had opted for unproven treatments offered by a dubious alternative health clinic in Florida. Despite winning the right to refuse chemotherapy in the courts, last reports were that the little girl is again receiving the life-saving conventional treatment. More recently, a very different case with similar themes has
been in the news. A couple of Albertan parents are in the midst of a criminal trial for not obtaining proper medical assistance for their child. Despite being warned by a family friend who was a nurse that the boy may have meningitis, the parents continued to treat him with herbal supplements and maple syrup. The child later died of bacterial meningitis, an infection that – not unlike the leukemia faced by the girl from Six Nations First Nation – is almost always fatal if left untreated. Such cases raise complicated questions about the fundamental nature of the parent-child relationship. Our society is generally quite deferential to parental choice, and for good reason, but if and where we draw the line between parental rights and child endangerment is a hotly contested issue. Is the parent-child relationship sacrosanct and absolute, immune from interference by society or government? Are our children the equivalent of chattels that we can deal with as we please? Or is parenting more akin to a sacred trust, where our broad discretion is subject to the overriding right of society to intervene when that child is put in danger by our acts and omissions? Whether we care to admit it in the context of the cases mentioned above or not, I think most of us ascribe to the “trust”
theory. Few of those who might defend parental rights in the cases above would reject the need for child protection authorities to intervene when a child is being subjected to physical abuse by a parent. And few would defend the rights of a grossly intoxicated parents to leave an infant without any sort of caregiver (although such defenders certainly exist). Yet for some reason when it comes to medical care we are much more hands-off as a society, and the parents in the cases above have found a surprising levels of support interspersed with the overwhelming anger directed towards them. Defenders of parental rights attempt to differentiate medical neglect cases from the more traditional situations that child protection authorities deal with. They say that a parent making medical choices for a child is acting in good faith and with the best interest of their child in mind and ought to be left alone. There are two objections to this line of reasoning. First, the intentions and motivations of the parent make no difference to the child who dies from bacterial meningitis or leukemia rather than some other form of abuse or neglect. Second, it involves classist assumptions about “those” people – I mean those we traditionally associate with the child welfare system – many of whom also love
their children but struggle with issues stemming from issues related to mental health and addictions, exacerbated by poverty and a lack of social support. When it comes to matters of proper medical treatment I’ll readily admit that I come to this issue with a significant bias. I’m skeptical of many of the bold claims of “alternative” medicine that cures for serious illnesses lie with everyday products like cinnamon, turmeric or honey. Unfortunately, the proven treatments for serious conditions like meningitis and cancer are powerful drugs that are sometimes accompanied with powerful side effects. This isn’t to say that there isn’t a lot of room for individualized decision-making in the world of medical treatment. The weighing of pros and cons for a particular course of treatment for a particular person with their own tolerances and preferences is not always a purely objective, scientific process. Moreover, there is often little harm in using unproven products, so long as more we don’t forego those that we know work. But evidence-based medicine isn’t a matter of opinion or point of view, either. There is a point where refusing a particular course of treatment in favour of unproven alternatives is foolish and dangerous. Foregoing proven treatments for conditions like
leukemia and meningitis is as reckless to the life and wellbeing of a child as anything else that the child protection concerns itself with. Also, I don’t subscribe to romanticized notions that entrance into the world of parenthood means we’ve suddenly acquired an expertise in all areas in which one needs to be knowledgeable. Yes, parents generally know our own children best because we spend more time with them than anyone else and have known them their entire lives. But we should not be so arrogant as to assume that this is the same as knowing what is best for them. The meme of “parents know best” is narcissistic nonsense – the product of a hyperindividualistic culture where flattery of our own abilities is ubiquitous in media. Good parenting means knowing when to defer to the skill and expertise of others, so that we don’t allow our children to suffer as a result of our own hubris and self-assuredness. If we fail to recognize our own limitations and put a helpless human being’s life at risk, it is incumbent on someone else to step in. Kyle Carruthers is a born-andraised Yukoner who lives and practises law in Whitehorse.
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Obama, Trudeau further some Arctic goals but miss others: experts Bob Weber Canadian Press
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rime Minister Justin Trudeau and U.S. President Barack Obama pushed forward some long-held goals for the Arctic at their Thursday meeting in Washington, D.C. But experts say the two leaders also missed a chance to restrict a major contributor to pollution and loss of sea ice in northern waters. “I was hoping to see a declaration that the U.S. and Canada would unilaterally ban the use of heavy fuel oil within their territorial and internal waters,” said Michael Byers, a professor of international law at the University of British Columbia and an expert on Arctic politics. Heavy fuel oil is a major source of black carbon, a sooty emission that darkens sea ice and snow and quickens its melt. It is considered a pollutant and has already been banned off North America’s east and west coasts. A document released by Trudeau and Obama only says: “We will determine with Arctic partners how best to address the risks posed by heavy fuel oil use and black carbon emissions from Arctic shipping.” That puts those talks at the mercy of Russia, which isn’t interested in a ban, said Byers. Still, Arctic observers pointed out the two leaders seem to have adopted good ideas from each other. Canada is formally backing an American initiative to ban all commercial fishing in northern waters until research can determine sustainable harvest levels. The United States was the first to ban such fishing in its Arctic territory, a ban which Canada later copied.
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President Barack Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Justin shake hands following the conclusion of their joint news conference on March 10 at White House in Washington. Talks have already occurred with other major fishing nations. Now Canada and the U.S. will seek a formal treaty to ensure the rest of the world does the same. “The leaders call for a binding international agreement to prevent the opening of unregu-
lated fisheries in the central Arctic Ocean to preserve living marine resources and promote scientific research in the region,” the document says The united front is good news, said Scott Highleyman with the environmental arm of the Pew Charitable Trusts. Highleyman, who has followed the issue closely, suggested that even better news is Canada’s offer to hold the next series of talks. “When diplomats start doing that, that means they think there’s some momentum.” The U.S. will also work with Canada on developing low-impact northern shipping corridors that would take into account ecological and cultural areas, migration
patterns of animals such as whales, indigenous use and navigation data quality. That’s something Canada’s Transport Department has been working on for years, said Byers. “It’s a further step in bilateral co-operation on shipping matters that involve the Northwest Passage,” he said. “Any incremental increase in co-operation will help to build confidence in Washington that Canada can manage the waterway and protect the interests of both (countries).” The two governments also reaffirmed their support for science-based decision-making with strong input from indigenous people. Most of the announcements
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Liberal-dominated committee calls on Ottawa to study guaranteed income the Liberals to refrain from making any changes to the existing federal taxation regime OTTAWA and other rules for small businesses. Those include profesLiberal-dominated sional businesses, the docuparliamentary comments noted. mittee is calling on the The recommendation apfederal government to explore pears to be at odds with the the concept of guaranteeing prime minister’s controversial people a minimum income. position on the issue. The finance committee During last year’s election tabled a pre-budget report Friday that pushes for a study and campaign, Justin Trudeau said the small business tax system pilot project on basic income, needed tweaking to ensure it which is seen as a way to lift benefits small businesses that people out of poverty. actually create jobs and is not The idea, which was not in used by wealthy individuals to the Liberal election platform, dodge taxes. was among 56 recommenTrudeau was criticized by dations in a document that encouraged the federal govern- lobby groups and political opponents for suggesting that ment to act on a broad range some of the wealthiest Caof subjects – from aboriginal nadians, such as doctors and issues to labour mobility to a lawyers, used small business national transit strategy. tax rates to lower their own tax The report was presented bills. before Finance Minister Bill The report also recommendMorneau unveils the Liberals’ ed Ottawa examine the feasimaiden budget on March 22. bility of a universal, national, But it is unclear whether the prescription drug program and suggestions will find their way into Morneau’s final fiscal plan. provide targeted support for The committee also urged regional economies hit particAndy Blatchford Canadian Press
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ularly hard by the weak dollar and low commodity prices. The House of Commons finance committee heard pre-budget suggestions from 92 witnesses last month and received another 175 written submissions from individuals and groups. The report highlighted arguments made by two individuals as well as the Canadian Association of Social Workers on the issue of basic income. The idea of introducing a guaranteed minimum income has been attracting more and more attention. Two years ago, the federal Liberals passed a non-binding resolution at its policy convention to work with provinces and territories to design and implement basic annual income. Last month, Independent Liberal Sen. Art Eggleton tabled a motion asking the federal government to sponsor a pilot project to evaluate the cost and impact of introducing a national basic income program.
Eggleton said efforts to address poverty have failed and argues that existing programs have only entrapped people. In Manitoba, the provincial Liberals have promised to assess the impacts of basic income in two communities if they win next month’s election. A project in Dauphin, Man., in the 1970s found an assured income actually lowered the number of hospital visits and improved the overall health of residents. Guaranteed income is also on the radar of Social Development Minister Jean-Yves Duclos, an economist who studied the issue as an academic. “Mr. Duclos follows the evolution of the basic-income issue, but at the moment the minister’s priorities are found in his mandate letter,” said Duclos’s spokesman Mathieu Filion. On Friday, opposition parties also voiced their prebudget opinions and recommendations in supplementary letters that accompanied the report.
The Conservatives pointed to the government’s recent acknowledgment it would no longer live up to its vow to cap annual deficits at $10 billion – and that shortfalls could reach as high as $30 billion. Ottawa has also cast doubt on its ability to fulfil its pledge to balance the books in four years. The Liberals have argued the fiscal situation has declined significantly since the October election and that the bigger shortfalls are necessary to invest in economy-boosting measures such as infrastructure. “Should their plans fail to produce substantially higher rates of economic growth, this borrowing will inevitably have to be repaid through higher taxes or cut-backs to government services,” the Tory letter warned. The NDP expressed concerns in its letter that the interests of the most vulnerable – including indigenous peoples and low-income Canadians – would be brushed aside by Liberal policies.
Oil-and-gas group asks for federal funds to clean up inactive wells move the group says would provide a much-needed boost Canadian Press for the ailing industry. Mark Salkeld, who heads CALGARY up the association, said as of he Petroleum Services January of this year there were Association of Canada more than 75,000 wells that has asked Ottawa for need to be decommissioned $500 million in infrastructure across the province and the spending to clean up inactive sums being requested would oil and gas wells in Alberta, a cover a small fraction of the Lauren Krugel
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task. “The oilfield services sector is hurting really bad right now and this is a very good program to put people to work,” he said. He said it’s not typical for member companies to seek a government handout. “In reality, we weren’t comfortable asking for money,” he said. “We don’t want to be see
in the wrong light.” But given the plunge in industry investment, the tens of thousands of layoffs in the oilfield services sector and the risk of companies disappearing completely, Salkeld said such a move makes sense. Salkeld calls the proposal a “win-win” – easing some of the economic pain while address-
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ing an environmental challenge. The group also acknowledges that it’s a company’s responsibility to decommission wells that are no longer producing. Salkeld said industry isn’t “shirking” that duty, but the government funds would help speed up that work at a time when firms are keeping a close eye on costs. “We’re saying, ‘Let’s not wait any longer. Let’s do something now and keep people working and not lose people to other industries and other provinces.”’ Salkeld said he ran the idea past Alberta government officials and got the sense that they’re keen on it. The Saskatchewan government made a similar federal pitch last month. That province’s proposal would cost Ottawa $156 million and said it would generate an estimated 1,200 jobs over the next two years.
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Left: Technician Chris Schmidt explains the the new biomass boiler installed at Raven Recycling which runs on rough wood chips, rather than uniform pellets. Right: Cold Climate Innovation at Yukon College helped fund the project, hoping to bring more biomass heating to the territory.
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he backyard of Whitehorse’s Raven Recycling is home to the territory’s latest European transplant. The recycling depot has swapped out its old boiler for one originally developed in Austria. The fire engine-red contraption in the backyard lives on a steady diet of old wood pallets, which it uses to create heat. It’s the latest pilot project, funded in part by Yukon College’s cold climate innovation branch, attempting to bring more biomass heating to the Yukon. “We’ve got a lot of biomass,” says director Stephen Mooney. “I can take you places 10 minutes from this spot and show you huge mounds of trees just rotting that could be chipped up this summer and stockpiled for biomass units.” It took two hours in December to grind about 300 pallets into 21 tons of wood chunks. That’s hopefully enough for the Hargassner woodchip boiler to heat the warehouse and offices for about a year. “Which is not actually that
many,” says Raven Recycling’s Danny Lewis. “We have about a third of that piled up already since we finished chipping.” What’s left after grinding has no consistent shape or size. It looks more like a family of angry beavers went to town shredding any wood in their path. A magnet is run through the pile to help yank out any stray nails and the shards of wood are dumped into a room adjacent to the boiler. If everything goes as planned, that’s the last time a person needs to touch the wood. Metal arms spin in the adjacent room pulling the wood crumbs towards what is essentially a giant corkscrew. That carries the wood to its last destination, to be burned in the boiler. “In the world of wood chips, these are ugly chips,” Mooney says as he reaches towards the slowly spinning screw and pulls out different sized chunks. “These aren’t pretty chips. But that’s the reason this boiler is here, this boiler can take ugly chips.” The project will track the type of wood that’s used, its moisture levels and the amount of heat created. It’s all in an effort to prove these
contraptions are viable options for the North and to discover what wood chips work best. The system is powered by gasification. That means that heated wood, when mixed with the right amount of oxygen, vapourizes to become synthetic gas. A computer controls the flow of wood and air into the burner, since different types of wood need different amounts of oxygen to burn most efficiently. The project is the brainchild of Chris Schmidt, who has spent 33 years working as a technician installing boilers. Originally from Europe where boilers like this are much more commonplace, Schmidt said he spent years looking for a way to bring a project home to the Yukon. It was only two or three years ago that this style of boiler was approved by the Canadian Standards Agency. There are about 12 to 14 similar units in Canada right now, Schmidt says. He was trained on one in Quebec. The cost of cutting, crushing and burning wood is much more consistent than oil prices. Wood is also found much closer to home.
“There’s a lot of biomass to use, which also keeps the jobs here, because somebody has to cut it, somebody has to shred it, somebody has to move it, somebody has to monitor it,” he says. Schmidt says the biggest obstacle to convince people to consider using a boiler like this is the high up-front costs. Just the boiler itself cost $55,000 and thousands more to install, he says. Lewis says Raven’s fuel bill has been anywhere from $30,000 to $40,000 a year. Now they anticipate about $3,000 to $5,000 a year in labour costs to help gather and process wood to feed the boiler. “What I’m hoping is that people will get aware of it and consider it as an option to heat buildings,” Schmidt says. The Yukon government released its biomass strategy earlier this year. As part of that strategy the government has agreed to consider using biomass whenever it plans a new building or a retrofit of an old one. A government spokesperson says officials are looking at a handful of projects that could use biomass, but no decisions have been made yet. Approximately 13,000 cords of wood are harvested annually in Yukon, mostly from beetle-kill wood in the Haines Junction area, to heat homes and buildings. That’s about 17 per cent of Yukon’s total consumption of energy for heat, according to the government.
Schmidt envisions a time when these kinds of boilers exist in all of Yukon’s communities as a way to give new life to waste wood. Mooney says he’d eventually like to look into systems that not only provide heat, but also electricity. The ones he’s considering haven’t been approved in Canada yet. If that does happen, Yukon College has a hole in its basement that might be a good fit. When the new campus was built in 1988 it came with a giant gasifier. It was billed as a furnace that could eat almost anything, from scrap wood to garbage, but it never really worked right. The technology was new. The machine’s serial number was 001, Mooney says. He says the feedstock was never consistent and someone had to be there at all times to make sure things kept running. “It could have been a good thing, but it wasn’t given the due diligence that it needed.” When Mooney started his job five years ago, a report claimed the machine could be fixed, but would cost “millions,” he says. It wasn’t worth the money and the system was pulled out. But the industry has grown since then. Now there are about 70,000 of these kinds of systems across the globe, according to Schmidt. Contact Ashley Joannou at ashleyj@yukon-news.com
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Study raises concerns over pesticide effects on ability of bumblebees to learn mately harm the food supply. The findings, contained in a study co-authored in Canada OTTAWA and the U.K., show that bumblebees exposed to a realistic xposure to even small level of a neonicotinoid insecamounts of pesticides is ticide called thiamethoxam, preventing bumblebees collected more pollen, but took from efficiently extracting pollonger to do so than control len from their favourite wildbees. flowers, says a new study, raisThe study, published Moning concerns that the chemicals day in Functional Ecology, are impairing the insects’ found that low exposure to ability to learn. the crop chemical can hinder And scientists warn that the ability of bumblebees to could affect the ability of the develop the skills they need to bees to pollinate both crops and wild plants, which can ulti- collect nectar and pollen. Terry Pedwell Canadian Press
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While several studies have been conducted on the effects of pesticides on the honeybee population, these findings are the first to explore how the chemicals may affect the ability of bumblebees to forage from common wildflowers. The pesticides confuse the insects, changing their foraging behaviour and floral preferences and hindering the development of the skills needed to extract nectar and pollen, says University of Guelph professor and senior author Nigel Raine. “Bees rely on learning to lo-
cate flowers, track their profitability and work out how best to efficiently extract nectar and pollen,� said Raine. “If exposure to low levels of pesticide affects their ability to learn, bees may struggle to collect food and impair the essential pollination services they provide to both crops and wild plants.� Deadly parasites and diseases have been blamed in part for contributing to a widespread collapse of bee populations in parts of the world. But several studies have
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Force of nature: new exhibit displays destruction and resiliency in Yukon
Myles Dolphin News Reporter
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ack in Dawson City’s early years, it wasn’t uncommon for calamitous fires to sweep through town. Houses were built of wood and canvas, heated using wood stoves and lit with candles and oil lamps. It became such a regular occurrence towards the end of the 19th century that the Dawson Daily News wrote the following headline after a particularly devastating fire in January 1900: “Dawson’s Annual Fire Creates a Loss of Half a Million Dollars.” A lesser-known fact from that era is that at least three of the fires between 1897 and 1900 involved dance hall girls. The first fire, in November 1897, was reportedly caused when Dolly Mitchell threw a lamp at another dance hall girl during an argument. A year later, Mitchell was blamed for another fire after she allegedly left a candle burning on a block of wood, causing flames to consume two hotels. The worst one happened in April 1899, when a fire that started in the Bodega Saloon spread along the waterfront. It’s estimated the fire destroyed at least 117 buildings in Dawson City and caused over $1 million in damage. In January 1900, a fire that started at the Monte Carlo Theatre razed the town’s business district. The town’s chief steward reported the fire started in a dance hall girl’s room in the theatre after sparks flew from a poorly installed stove pipe. Newspaper clippings and photographs from the era, taken from the MacBride Museum of Yukon History’s collection, are now on display at the Hougen Heritage Gallery at Arts Underground. It’s part of a new exhibit titled Fire & Flood: disaster and perseverance in Yukon history. Leighann Chalykoff, manager of museum services, researched and put the exhibit together. She said the idea came from the sales of a book, The Survivors, the museum published in 2011. “It’s a story about the British Yukon Navigation ships that survived on Yukon’s lakes and rivers,” she said. “The book is selling but we realized that people prefer to hear stories about disasters. Plus we’re always looking at our collection to display photographs that are surprising
MacBride Museum of Yukon History collection, 1989-4-1-2
The fire of 1905 destroyed many buildings along Whitehorse’s Front Street. Yukon poet Robert Service joined the bucket brigade to help quell the blaze.
MacBride Museum of Yukon History collection, 1989-4-1-2
The S.S. Casca and S.S. Whitehorse were engulfed in flames on June 20, 1974. and rarely seen.” Chalykoff found mention of the January 1900 fire in Pierre Berton’s Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush, in which the author recounts how Dawson
City residents were quick to start rebuilding their town. “Less than 12 hours after his saloon was destroyed, Tom Chisholm had erected a big tent labelled ‘Aurora’ and was doing
business again,” Berton wrote. “Although nails sold for twenty-five cents each, the familiar ring of saw and hammer was quickly heard on Front Street.”
The exhibit also features photographs and documents from the Whitehorse fire in 1905, which destroyed nearly every building from Front Street to Second Avenue between Elliott and Steele. After the fire department’s new equipment broke down, residents began filling up buckets to help douse the flames. One of the volunteers was Yukon poet Robert Service. Chalykoff also unearthed a diary entry by Anna Puckett, who laments the aftermath. “I can’t write anymore… Everybody was just walking around the ruins trying to find something when we left,” she wrote in May 1905. “Nobody spoke much but they were pitching tents on cleared spots, so I supposed the City will build again.” Fires were not the only danger to Yukon’s towns. Devastating floods were documented in Dawson City in 1925, 1944, 1966, 1969 and 1979, as well as in Mayo in 1936. An undated picture features a group of men in a canoe as they get ready to dock on a Dawson City sidewalk. Mayo residents were forced to evacuate their homes during the 1936 flood. “Slimy mud and silt a foot deep clung to the floors and began to cake and harden,” wrote A.A. Gillespie in the Mayo Miner Flood Supplement on June 20, 1936. “Walls were stained and mud-splashed. Furniture, clothing, dishes and other household effects lay crumpled and mildewed.” The Whitehorse Star reported that one woman, who woke up in the middle of the night to witness her greenhouse floating by, promptly fainted. The most eye-grabbing photograph in the exhibit is the one of the S.S. Casca and S.S. Whitehorse ablaze on June 20, 1974. The riverboats had been dry docked on the waterfront near the former site of the Whitehorse shipyards since the mid1950s. Over the years the ships slowly deteriorated and had been the target of vandalism. “People said it looked like the steamers were going down the river because of the amount of smoke,” Chalykoff said. Within a few hours, the enormous ships were reduced to a giant pile of ash. Fire & Flood: disaster and perseverance in Yukon history is on display at the Hougen Heritage Gallery until June 25. Contact Myles Dolphin at myles@yukon-news.com
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MANNERS DEAR MISS MANNERS: As I have a long career as a musician and music scholar, I may be asked my opinion of a performance. I reply with a measured response, a statement of approval or a sharp criticism. However, as an audience member there are occasions when I feel obliged to express criticism of the performance, or of excessive approval exhibited by the audience when I believe their unison response lacks understanding. Why should it be acceptable to give standing ovations, etc., at the close of passable performances, but not shouts of critique? I only refer to professional concerts, and not school or amateur performers. My wife says I am rude and feels humiliated upon these circumstances. My therapist comments: “Do no harm.” GENTLE READER: Online commerce has conditioned us to the unavoidable running commentary from “unsatisfiedcustomer447” on how the toaster did not work as advertised, but not every interaction with our fellow man is subject to review. Nevertheless, curtain calls certainly are, and Miss Manners will defend your right to boo as well as to cheer. But it is not a debate. The person sitting next to you has as much right to express his opinion as you, no matter how ill-informed it may be. Booing your fellow audience members would be impolite, and will, in any case, not be heard over all the “bravos.” Miss Manners is aware of the urgency with which extra sources of money are needed in the school system. But using schoolchildren to cause this embarrassment teaches them a bad lesson. It is different from the old method, when they were expected to provide a service — typically, car-washing or baking — that could make them proud of their ability to earn and contribute. Your situation seems particularly odd, as your buying from those to whom you sell would make all that effort financially futile. Miss Manners suggests that you work, instead, on devising a dignified way for the children to earn money. Her guess is that organizing them to help adults learn how to use their computers and smartphones would reap a small fortune. You may then, in good conscience, decline to
DEAR MISS MANNERS: I received an email from a friend announcing that she would be eloping in two weeks. This seems strange. Doesn’t elopement mean stealing away without anyone’s knowledge, to tie the knot? What do social mores call for in such instances? Should I purchase a gift, or should I simply say good luck/best wishes in a return email? GENTLE READER: Your friend has found a humorous way to distract you from the fact that she is not inviting you or anyone else to her wedding. That she did so without adding gift registry information warms Miss Manners’ heart. Send a present if you like, but do write, wishing her well and promising not to tip off her parents. DEAR MISS MANNERS: I have exchanged birthday cards with a dear friend for 20-plus years. This year she texted and Facebooked, but NO card. I am greatly offended and hurt. Is this acceptable in this age of technology? GENTLE READER: To be offended at someone’s congratulating you on your birthday in an informal manner? Miss Manners considers that taking insult where none was intended is churlish. DEAR MISS MANNERS: If I want to receive only money for my wedding and no gifts, how
can I word it? GENTLE READER: “Stick ‘em up”? Despite their combined efforts, modernity, convenience and plain greed have not succeeded in convincing Miss Manners — or most gift-givers — that both the form and substance of a gift are not at the discretion of the giver. Before you explain, she hastens to add that she would be unmoved by the justification that you are underpaid, you mean to donate the money to charity, and you loathe your friends’ taste. DEAR MISS MANNERS: What is the appropriate manner to point? We have a grandson who points with his middle finger a lot. GENTLE READER: Well, that’s definitely not it. Pointing at a person with any finger is rude. Gestures that use your whole hand or a clear verbal description — such as a name — are always preferred. For everything else, Miss Manners recommends, well, the pointing index finger.
(without a sale being solicited), read them, and felt compelled to say something positive, while I’d have preferred reading something from my own library. In this age of self-publishing, how do you advise one handle this situation? GENTLE READER: By not going looking for trouble. While it is kind of you to take an interest in your acquaintances’ work, there is no obligation to read it, especially as no such request is being made. For this, you should count yourself lucky. Miss Manners advises you to continue being pleasant, but not to go courting resentment — on your part or theirs. And if these acquaintances ever do ask you directly, you may say, “Oh yes, I’ve been meaning to read that” for as long as you may politely continue to do so.
DEAR MISS MANNERS: My daughter invited seven friends to join her at a local amusement park for her 13th birthday. Everyone responded, saying that they would be delighted to attend. On the day of the party, one DEAR MISS MANNERS: Someof the girls arrived at the park one I chat with at the gym has with a friend who had not been told me he’s writing a book. I’ve invited to the party. My daughter been out of town for a couple months, and my manners tell me that next time I see him, I should ask about the book. However, I don’t want to read it; it’s science fiction, a genre I don’t enjoy. In the past, I’ve had two acquaintances mention that they’d written books. Wanting to be supportive, I’ve bought both books
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graciously told the girl that she could use my son’s ticket since he had unexpectedly woken up with a bad headache, but the whole situation was decidedly uncomfortable. Why would the parents think it was appropriate to bring an uninvited guest to a “destination” birthday party? How should we have handled this? It did not actually cost us extra for this extra guest since my son was sick, and she was technically taking his place, if that makes a difference. GENTLE READER: The parents were wrong, but your daughter, Miss Manners is pleased to say, behaved impeccably. As the ticket was available and the girl’s friend was not necessarily to blame for the transgression, there was nothing to do but to be gracious. In order to avoid a repeat offense, however, you would not be remiss in telling the girl’s parents next time you see them, “Isn’t it lucky that my son had a headache?” — with the optional insertion of a long pause here to allow for confusion and inquiry as to why — “Or we would never have been able to accommodate your daughter’s unexpectedly showing up with a friend at the party.”
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SPORTS AND RECREATION Whitehorse Huskies are going to the Coy Cup
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Whitehorse Huskies forward Ted Stephens finds room in front of the net during a best-of-three series against the Powell River Regals at Takhini Arena on Saturday. The Huskies won two out of three games to advance to the Coy Cup next week in Terrace, B.C. Tom Patrick News Reporter
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ook out Fort St. John Flyers, Smithers Steelheads and Terrace River Kings – the Huskies are coming for you. The Whitehorse Huskies will vie for the B.C. AA title against those three teams at the Coy Cup next week. They punched their ticket for the club’s first Coy Cup appearance with wins over the Powell River Regals this past weekend at Takhini Arena. “We’re super excited,” said Huskies head coach Michael Tuton. “I’m just happy for this group of guys. They all came together, started playing for each other. They put a lot of effort into this and they wanted it. “Everyone was excited to be here Sunday. Game 3, a deciding game, at home – I don’t know what more you could ask for.” Considering that the best-ofthree playoff series went to three games, there were some pretty
lopsided scores in there. The Huskies produced a very sound 13-5 win Friday, before a 7-2 loss Saturday, and finally – with all the chips on the table – an 8-3 win Sunday. “In Game 2 they really tightened it up. They had a good game plan against us,” said Huskies captain Evan Campbell. “I felt like we had our legs going, but systematically they beat us. They clogged the neutral zone and we just couldn’t get much by them.” “After that first game, putting up 13 goals, psychologically you go, ‘this might be a bit easy,’” he added. “Today we knew it was going to be a battle. Everyone knew they had to play their role and do the little things right.” Campbell’s forward line, which includes centre Adam Henderson and winger Kane Dawe, racked up 11 points in Sunday’s deciding game. Campbell notched two goals and two assists; Henderson one goal and three assists; and Dawe, who was
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Huskies forward Mike Arnold rounds the Regals’ net on Saturday night. the only Huskies player to score in all three games, with one goal and two assists. “It’s so fun to play with them and we just feed off each other,” said Henderson. “We have that chemistry – right place, right
time. We just know where everyone is.” The Huskies scored two in the first and two early in the second for a 4-0 lead in Sunday’s game before the Regals narrowed the gap with three quick goals.
Whitehorse’s Gibson Pearson stole back the momentum with a big hit and an unassisted goal with 1:51 left in the second. Ted Stephens, Rob Stuckey and Kaleb Dawe also scored in the game for the Huskies. Stephens also found the back of the net during Saturday’s 7-2 loss. “We have a fast team, a physical team, and we got away from that Saturday night,” said Tuton. “There was very little said today. There’s been enough talk, it was just time to get out and do it. I’m proud of the guys, the way they rebounded. “I’m so proud of (goalie) J.J. Gainsforth, the way he came in there and really took the team with him.” Gainsforth started all three games, but came out for Daniel Naef in the third period on Saturday. The Huskies jumped out to a 5-0 lead to start Friday’s game as the Campbell line put on a show with plays suitable for any highlight reel. (A blind backhand
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Left: Rob Stucky absorbs a hit from the Regals’ Joe Calderone on Saturday. Right: Huskies defenceman Jared Tuton blasts a shot during Whitehorse’s 13-5 win on Friday. pass from Campbell to Kane, who scored to make it 2-0, was a crowd pleaser.) Campbell finished Friday with two goals and four assists; Henderson and assistant captain Derek Klassen both had two goals and two assists; Kane had a goal and three assists; and forward Kevin Petovello knocked in two goals. “After the first period of the first game, it wasn’t looking good,” said Regals captain Andy Welsh. “It always seems like our travel day up here is our toughest game. Coming off that flight we always struggle. It was one bad loss, but we came out and played really good Saturday.” The Regals, who won the Coy Cup in 2010, travelled to Whitehorse with nine forwards and four defence. (Contrary to rumours, the Regals didn’t have more players fly up before Saturday’s game.) In the third period of Game 3, “We just ran out of gas,” said Welsh. “Not having a full line-up up here really hurt us in the third period … (The Huskies) were fresher, skated better than us and that’s why they won. “When you go on the road, it’s tough because you’re always short,” he added. “It’s hard to have guys get the time off.” Speaking of which, with the Coy Cup starting Tuesday in Terrace, Huskies players will be having sit-downs with their bosses this week to see if they can get time off. “There’ll be a few conversations tomorrow,” said Tuton. “We
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The Regals’ Jordan Marciniak careens past Huskies goalie Daniel Naef on Saturday. have some great folks in Whitehorse, so I’m sure there’ll be a lot of time off given out … It’s
Whitehorse’s team, so everyone has to step in and do their part.” “Hopefully all of our employ-
ers can give us the week off,” said Henderson. “We’re going down there with the determination to
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Yukon biathletes set high-water mark at Arctic Games Tom Patrick News Reporter
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t didn’t take long for last week’s Arctic Winter Games in Nuuk, Greenland to have the appearance of being an historic one for Biathlon Yukon. On the first day of racing, Yukon ski and snowshoe biathletes won 10 medals – one more than Yukon won at the entire 2014 Games for biathlon. “Our team shot really well ‌ I think it’s because we train in difficult conditions, in the wind and in the cold,â€? said Yukon coach Laurie Jacobsen. “Our kids are becoming very fine shooters. They are just so comfortable with it they just took it with them to Greenland. We had some really good performances in the shooting. “That team is just a fantastic team. We really work well together and they’re such good kids and it was just a fantastic experience. I couldn’t ask for a better team.â€? By the end of competition on Friday, Yukon had raced to a team record of 27 medals in ski biathlon and snowshoe biathlon, more than a quarter of the 100 Team Yukon brought home from the Games. Whitehorse brothers Liam and Aidan Adel produced the lion’s share of the gold medals in Nuuk. Liam, 17, won Yukon’s first gold medal of the Games, taking first in the junior male’s 7.5-kilometre ski biathlon race on March 8. “I was quite happy to take gold with the competition out
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there,� said Liam. “It really did prove to me the training the coaching staff has provided has done well for me and the other athletes. It felt really good to win that race, it kind of set up the whole week.� Liam went on to take another gold in the six-kilometre sprint and a bronze in the 7.5-kilometre mass start race. “I feel pretty lucky to be part of that team, to come down and do as well as we did,� said Liam. “The training and time has been put in and it obvi-
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ously reflected in our results. The coaching staff has done a great job getting these athletes ready.� “The highlight for me was coming in and overcoming some interesting conditions: a new range, a flat course with no hills, no trees. It was good to come and shoot and ski as well as I did on an unfamiliar course and watch the whole team adapt so quickly.� Younger brother Aidan picked up his medals in juvenile male snowshoe biathlon. The 14-year-old won gold in the 2.5-kilometre mass start race and in the two-kilometre sprint. “It was my first year with the team and it’s a great team,� said Aidan. “The fact that we all went there, did as well as we did in a new place, and the fact we stuck together as a team, felt really good.� “My first gold medal, I was very surprised,� he added. “I was very happy that for my first international competition I could do that well.� Aiden wasn’t the only fairly new biathlete to have success in Nuuk. Whitehorse’s Veronica Porter, who is in just her second season of biathlon, won a silver in the juvenile female snowshoe biathlon sprint and helped Yukon’s relay team win bronze. “It was pretty fun. It was really interesting to meet all the
people and having everybody winning a bunch of medals,� said Porter, 12. “I like the combination of the skiing and the shooting. It’s really fun,� she added. “There was a day where you could go out and try it to see if you wanted to join, so we tried it out and I really liked it so I joined.� Yukon actually won 28 medals last week if you count the Alberta Provincial Biathlon Championships in Hinton. Whitehorse’s Jake Draper won a bronze at the championship on March 6. Two other factors may have contributed to the success of the Yukon biathletes in Greenland. Yamal, Russia – which won 46 medals in biathlon at the last Arctics – didn’t enter a biathlon team this year. Also, for the first time in years Yukon had a full team with 16 athletes competing in ski and snowshoe biathlon. “I think all but one of these snowshoe biathletes are also ski biathletes and decided to take up snowshoeing just for Arctics,� said Jacobsen. “We had one girl, Hanna Korn, who came in for snowshoe biathlon and now she’s going to try skiing.� Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com
Ski biathlon medals Gold Liam Adel (7.5 km individual) Liam Adel (6.0 km sprint)
Silver Dana Sellars (5.0 km individual) Aidan Hupe (5.0 km individual) Maria Peters (7.5 km individual)
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Bronze Bronwyn Goodwin (5.0 km individual) Romeo Champagne (5.0 km individual) Micah Hildes (7.5 km individual) Daniel Sennett (6.0 km sprint) Dana Sellars (5.0 km mass start) Liam Adel (7.5 mass start)
Snowshoe biathlon medals Gold Bruce Wilson (4.0 km mass start) Aidan Adel (2.5 km mass start) Aidan Adel (2.0 km sprint) Team Yukon (3x2.0 km relay)
Silver Bruce Wilson (3.0 km sprint) Veronica Porter (2.0 km sprint)
Bronze Marika Kitchen (4.0 km mass start) Marika Kitchen (3.0 km sprint) Marika Kitchen (5.0 km individual) Bruce Wilson (5.0 km individual) Aidan Adel (3.0 km individual) Team Yukon (3x2.0 km relay)
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Futsal teams claim three medals at Arctics
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Left: Yukon top scorer Mikaela Ponsioen brings the ball up court in futsal play last week at the Arctic Winter Games in Nuuk, Greenland. Yukon won three medals in futsal. Right: Juvenile male player Bennett Kishchuk led the tournament with six goals. everyone’s name out and only then did it sink in that we were going News Reporter for gold,� said Yukon player Line Jensen. ore than half of Yukon “I felt pretty good about AWG. soccer players scored Our team played really well tohardware at the 2016 Arcgether and everyone worked their tic Winter Games last week in Nuuk, hardest,� she added. Greenland. “The highlight for me was seeing Three of Yukon’s five teams won my girls smiling after losing a tight a medal in futsal – a form of indoor game in the final,� said Hanson. soccer played on hardwood floors “I’m very happy that they are comand without walls to keep the ball ing away from this week feeling in play. proud of how they performed. Yukon’s intermediate female had They deserve to be proud of what the greatest success with a silver they accomplished. Sapmi was a medal. dominant team throughout the “I’m extremely proud of how my tournament but they had great, girls performed,� said coach Sarah close games with us both times we Hanson in an email to the News. “All played. Every game we played was of the games were very competitive a challenge in different ways and and they played very strategically they adjusted and came together as in each one. I feel like as a team we a team for each one.� gave everything we had to give from Yukon reached the final with the first game to the final.� a 3-1 win over N.W.T. Thursday. Yukon took silver with a tight Mikaela Ponsioen, her team’s top 1-0 loss to Team Sapmi in the final scorer in Nuuk, scored twice in the on Friday. Sapmi went undefeated match and Thea Carey also scored. in the tournament with six straight Ponsioen finished second for wins for gold. scoring in the tournament with “My highlight was our gold eight goals. Carey had four while medal game. Once we all went onto Malorie Hanson, Jamie Joe-Hudson and Jamie McLeish each had one. the field and lined up they called Tom Patrick
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“Mikaela Ponsioen scored the most goals for us and did a great job for us up front,� said Sarah. “Our goalie Isabel Magsucang, although new to futsal, really came through for us, especially in the final.� Yukon also claimed bronze in the junior male and juvenile male divisions, both with shutout wins over N.W.T. Yukon’s junior male team took bronze with a 5-0 win over N.W.T. Ewan Halliday was the team’s top scorer with four goals in the tournament. Teammates Felix Maltais, Tyler Milton and Dawson Weir each had three. The juvenile male squad downed N.W.T. 2-0 for their bronze. Ben Kishchuk, who led the team with six goals in Nuuk, got the game-winner in the bronze game. Teammates Joseph Hanson and Andreas Lavanderos both registered four goals at the Games. Yukon’s junior and juvenile female squads both made it to the bronze matches. The junior team lost 5-1 to N.W.T. in the bronze match to place fourth out of six teams. “I’m very proud of how our girls performed. It’s the first proper
futsal tournament we’ve played in, as futsal is an up and coming game in Canada,� said coach Ashley Beggs. “The girls learned and adapted quickly to the tournament rules and officiating. We finished second of six teams in preliminary matches – a result of preparedness and focus.� Lara Herry-Saint Onge scored her fourth of the tournament to put Yukon on the board in the bronze match. Bryn Halena Peterson led
the team with five goals in Nuuk. “Our goalkeeper, Reena Coyne, deserves credit,� added Beggs. “She exceeded my expectations and was invaluable on and off the pitch.� Yukon’s juvenile female team placed fourth with a 3-0 loss to Team Alberta North in the bronze match. Cassidy Cairns, Abby Rich and Kamryn Williamson each logged two goals at the tournament. Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com
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Yukon volleyball team takes silver in Greenland Sarah Lewis/Team Yukon
Yukon’s Adrian Robinson and Luka Van Randen go up for a block at the Arctic Winter Games last week in Nuuk, Greenland. Yukon won silver in male volleyball.
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nly one team last week outperformed Yukon in junior male volleyball at the 2016 Arctic Winter Games in Nuuk, Greenland.
Team Alberta North had Yukon’s number, winning 25-23, 2518, 25-13 in the final on Thursday. It was the second Arctic Games in a row Yukon took silver in the male tournament. “I am very proud of the way we played all week and although
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I would have like to get gold, a silver medal was a great accomplishment,” said Yukon coach D’Arcy Hill in an email to the News. “The success of the team came from all the work we did three months leading up to the Games. I demanded a higher level of volleyball from this group and through hard work and a never-give-up attitude these athletes delivered this high level at the AWG. (I’m) very interested what they will be able to do going forward.” The Yukon team placed second
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other teams and very proud to be coming home to the Yukon with a silver medal.” Alaska took the bronze with a straight-set win over N.W.T. and Nunavut defeated Greenland in four sets for fifth place. Yukon’s female team went winless and did not make the playoffs. “Arctics has been a blast. The venues are awesome and the shared accommodations were phenomenal,” added Schmidt. “The other teams are really nice and you get to connect with other kids your age from different parts of the world. Arctics here in Greenland has been a great experience and I am looking forward to the next one.” Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com
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OFFICE SPACE available in Pine Medical building. Great for health care business! 2 rooms for $520/month + GST, heat/hydro included. Contact 667-2144
ROOM IN new 3-bdrm condo, Porter Creek, responsible tenant, avail May 1, dd & refs reqĘźd, utilities included except internet, $700/mon. 335-0487
HOBAH APARTMENTS: Clean, spacious, walking distance downtown, security entrance, laundry room, plug-ins, rent includes heat & hot water, no pets. References required. 668-2005
LARGE BDRM in Kopper King, shared living room, kitchen & laundry, share food or buy your own, free tv, N/S, available immediately, $700/mon. 667-6060
2-BDRM 1.5 bath condo, Central Park, Takhini, new, clean, great location, 1-yr lease required, avail May or June 1, refs reqĘźd, email for photos, $1,650/mon. katherinejstewart@gmail.com
WEEKEND GET AWAY Rustic Cabin-45 minutes from town Hiking Trails in the summer Skiing in the winter Includes sauna. Reasonable rates. Rent out by the week or for a weekend. 867-821-4443 BRIGHT OFFICE/STUDIO Space Available 1,300 sq. ft. 129 Copper Road. Space includes Kitchen area with stove & fridge. 667-2614 Ask for Brenda or Michelle totalfire@northwestel.net OFFICE SPACE FOR RENT 2nd floor of building on Gold Road in Marwell Sizes 180 sqft & 340 sqft Quiet spaces with reasonable rent 667-2917 or 334-7000 2-BDRM APT, Riverdale, with balcony, only 2 yrs old, avail immediately, heat, lights & water incl, laundry, responsible tenant, N/P, no parties, $1,500/mon. 668-5558 3-BDRM 3-BATH apt, Riverdale, N/P, avail immed, $1,300/mon. 668-6110 1-BDRM DOWNTOWN, fully furnished, available immediately, $975/mon all inclusive. 668-5558 3-BDRM 2-BATH Duplex with garage in Copper Ridge, avail April 1, lots of storage, great views, N/P, $1,700/mon. 334-1907 OFFICE OR retail space, Ogilvie St, 1,350 sq ft, wheelchair access, leasehold improvements, move in time, kitchenette. 667-7144 1-BDRM SUITE, Crestview, furnished, quiet, near trails, wood heat, N/S, pet OK. 633-2455
LATTIN’S PLACE
FOR LEASE PRIME LOCATION ON 2ND AVE. Suitable for retail, ofďŹ ce or commercial. 1,145sq. ft. or larger if units combined. Handicap accessible. Lots of parking for customers or clients To view or for more information call
334-5038
LARGE 2-BDRM bsmt suite, Granger, 1,100 sq ft living space, responsible tenant, $1,400/mon all inclusive, reduced rate for someone working out of town, N/S, N/P. 336-3751
BARNS & corrals on 2 acres, barn insulated, power & year round water, incl 3 shelters & 5 pens, Mile 5 Mayo Rd, $500/mon incl elec. 335-5192
2-BDRM BSMT apt, Riverdale, 4 appliances, fireplace, heat & light included, 1 off-street parking spot, NS, N/P, no parties, quiet place, responsible tenants, $1,300/mon. 334-5466.
2 WORKSHOPS, 24X48Ęź, separate bays, one has small office, one has large cement pad in front, Mile 5 Mayo Rd, $1,000/mon ea, heat & elec included. 335-5192
ROOM IN 2-bdrm apt in Hillcrest, shared accommodations, available immed, furnished, cable, internet, $700/mon, all included. 335-0009
50X70Ęź SHOP on 4-acre lot, 2 bath, infloor heat, full mezzanine, incl 24X60Ęź shed w/cement floor & lights, lots of parking, Mile 5 Mayo Rd, $4,000/mon incl heat & elec. 335-5192
FURNISHED BDRM in Copper Ridge house with private washroom, refs reqĘźd, N/S, $480/mon includes all utils. 336-1406 2-BDRM BSMT suite, Riverdale, N/S, N/P, refs & dd reqĘźd, avail April 1, $1,000/mon utils incl. 334-3234 1-BDRM SUITE, Granger, sunny, parking, private entrance, new paint & renoĘźd, furnished, avail March 1, N/P, N/S. 668-4205 2-BDRM DUPLEX, Hillcrest, freshly painted interior, heat, Satellite, hot water incl, avail mid-March, N/P, N/S, $1,450/mon. 667-2168 or email: robinmoyen@hotmail.com ROOM AVAILABLE, downtown, avail April 1, $800 all inclusive. Call or text 334-3549 FURNISHED ROOM Porter Creek trailer, close to bus stop & mall, clean bright home. $400/mon + utils. Contact Telek @ 335-4501 or thesnarkhunter@hotmail.com ONE ROOM cabin, Wolf Creek North, has all amenities, full kitchen, full bath & on water delivery, N/S, N/P, $900/mon + utils & dd. 334-9230 to view 1-BDRM SUITE, Copper Ridge, full bath, full kitchen, beautiful location, access to greenbelt, N/S, N/P, $1,000/mon + utils & dd. 334-9230 3-BDRM DUPLEX, Granger, available April 1st, 2 full baths, 4 appliances, very well maintained, N/P, N/S, $1,400/mon. 668-5891 3-BDRM, 2.5 bath home, Copper Ridge across from greenbelt, granite counters, maple kitchen, wood floors, propane fireplace, tile bathrooms, single car garage, N/S, N/P, $1,700/mon + utils. 334-4741 1-BDRM SUITE, Copper Ridge, very nice, private, N/S, N/P, responsible tenants, avail immed, $900/mon + utils. 456-7397 2-BDRM HOUSE, downtown, sunny, small, quiet, responsible tenant, N/S, N/P, refs & dd reqĘźd, avail May 1, $1,200/mon + utils. 660-5545
5-BDRM 3-BATH log country home on 4 acres, beautiful, quiet, all appliances, 2-bay shop/garage, 2-bay carport, Mile 5, Mayo Rd, wood heat, wood supplied, barn/corrals can be included, $3,000/mon. 335-5192 GARAGE, LARGE single-car, Copper Ridge, 297.5 sq ft, $1.35 per sq ft, clean, insulated, cement floor, 12 shelves, carpenterĘźs work bench. Refs required. 668-2889 after 5pm FURNISHED MONTREAL apartment located in Mile End, near shops & transportation, ground floor, private parking, 3 bdrms, 2 baths, piano, basic linen & kitchen ware, wifi, $1800/mon. 668-2162
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COTTAGE-STYLE TRAILER, 1.5 bdrms, tongue & grove/living room, click flooring, tiling, new bathrm fixtures, new deck, permaculture garden, 3 appliances, trails/view, quick sale, $25,000. 668-5188 before 4pm OLDER MOBILE home with addition, MUST BE MOVED, all new electrical, all newly renovated trailer park, c/w 3 appliances, fridge, stove, washer/dryer, $40,000. 633-5324
Good Night! Wind up your day with everything you need. 867-667-6283
Help Wanted HEALTHCARE DOCUMENTATION SPECIALISTS in huge demand. Employers prefer CanScribe graduates. A great work-from-home career! Contact us now to start your training day. www.canscribe.com. 1.800.466.1535. info@canscribe.com HELP WANTED NOC 6731 Housekeeping Room Attendant Qualifications: Relevant hotel certification preferred. Applicants with relevant experience preferred Hours: 40 hours/week Wage: $15.50/hr Duties: Make beds, change sheets, distribute clean towels & toiletries Dust furniture, vacuum carpets. Clean hotel rooms/public areas Attend to guest requests for extra supplies hr@elitehotel.ca Elite Hotel & Travel Ltd. 206 Jarvis St Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 2H1
Da Daghay Development Corporation is looking for business minded individuals to ďŹ ll vacancies on the board. If you are interested in getting involved in the Ta’an Kwach’an development corporation, please contact us. TKC citizens are encouraged to apply. Interested applicants call for an information package. E. dadaghay@northwestel.net T. (867) 667-6609 C. (867) 332-7898
HOUSESITTER AVAILABLE Mature, responsible person Call Suat at 668-6871 WANTED TO rent: Cabin or small house to rent for April 1 or May 1. I am long time Yukoner and experienced with cabin life. Contact me at 335-4150 WANTED: 3-BDRM house w/basement or family room, family of 4, Takhini area or closer to town, 2 well-behaved cats, 2 kids in school, both working professionals, $1,500 $2,200. 604-741-4226 MY HUSBAND and I are nurses starting work in April looking for long term house rental with our 2 dogs. We are non-smokers. Please call 250-651-7791 or email hereisourstory@gmail.com
Real Estate 4 ACRES, commercial/residential, Lt 1026 Nygren sub. Haines Junction mountain view, cleared meadows, driveway, house/shop pad, power along prop line, water@ approx 60Ęź, $52,000 or w/3 bed mobile $60k. 334-6065
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NEED AN APPRAISAL IN ATLIN? I am trying to arrange one and am looking for other parties to share the cost of the appraiser's travel from Terrace, BC. Approximate timeframe is summer of 2016. Please contact Steve Robertson at (867) 667-4586.
HELP WANTED Integra Tire Whitehorse is looking to ďŹ ll a full time permanent position consisting of 40 hours/week.
Service Station/Propane Attendant The Applicant must be able to work weekends and evenings. Driver’s License & Propane CertiďŹ cation is required. Wage is $12.50 - $15.00 / hour depending on experience (NOC Code 6621). Group Insurance BeneďŹ ts available. Drop resume off at 107 Industrial Road Attn: Cal Murdoch or email to Cal@yukontire.com
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YUKON NEWS
VUNTUT GWITCHIN FIRST NATION Old Crow, Yukon FINANCE AND HUMAN RESOURCES DEPT
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LEAD CSR NOC#6551 $13 up to $17 per hour 40 per week Duties: to provide wide range of cash based products and services Email taunya.hirschl@moneymartdr.com
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EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY
DIRECTOR, HEALTH & SOCIAL PROGRAMS THE JOB: Reporting to the Executive Director, this position directs the Health and Social department team in delivering programs and services in the areas of social assistance, family and child welfare, addictions and personal counseling, personal and home care for Elders and clients with disabilities, health promotion and justice programs. The Director also represents VGFN in health and social related business with governments, partners and professionals, develops and implements strategic goals and work plans, and serves as a member of the Senior Management Team. QUALIFICATIONS: The ideal candidate will have a degree or diploma in a ďŹ eld related to health and social services or the equivalent in experience and relevant training; Broad knowledge of government legislation regarding health and social services; Knowledge of health and social issues affecting First Nation peoples both locally and nationally. The ideal candidate will also have extensive management experience that includes ďŹ nancial and supervisory skills with at least two years at a senior level either in private or public sector and previous experience in a First Nation community is an asset. CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT s #RIMINAL RECORD CHECK s $RIVER S CLASS LICENSE WOULD BE AN ASSET PAY RANGE: $79,806 - $103,748 per annum plus an excellent beneďŹ t package 4HIS IS A FULL TIME TERM POSITION BASED ON HOURS PER WEEK HOUR WORKDAY a.m. to 12:00 p.m. & 1:00 to 4:30 p.m) A detailed job description is available at: http://www.vgfn.ca/employment Minimum one-year term commitment is required. CLOSING DATE: Wednesday, March 23, 2016 @ 4:00 p.m. We thank all applicants but only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Please submit resumes that include job experience related to position to:
EXPRESSION OF INTEREST The Wildlife Management Advisory Council (North Slope) is seeking an individual to assist the Council in implementing its mandate as established in the Inuvialuit Final Agreement. This is a part-time, job-shared position (0.6 full-time equivalent) with the possibility of enhancement (to 0.8). The position is located in Whitehorse, Yukon. It is a challenging position and requires an extensive set of skills, knowledge and experience. The Council was established in 1988 under the Western Arctic (Inuvialuit) Settlement Act, which gave legal effect to the 1984 Inuvialuit Final Agreement (IFA). WMAC (NS) consists of an independent chairperson, two Inuvialuit representatives, one Government of Canada representative, and one Yukon Government representative. The Council is responsible for advising the appropriate ministers of the federal and territorial governments, as well as regional agencies and organizations, on all matters related to wildlife policy and the management, regulation and administration of wildlife, habitat and harvesting for the Yukon North Slope. Interested persons are invited to submit a resume with a letter of interest indicating their experience in the following areas: • Natural resource management and conservation planning • Wildlife harvest management • Conservation biology and aboriginal traditional knowledge • Land claims implementation • Policy analysis and strategic planning • Environmental impact assessment • Project management, including contract supervision • Report writing • Meeting and workshop coordination • General office administration (including software knowledge and financial management) The letter of interest should also indicate the candidateʟs demonstrated ability to work independently and knowledge of arctic environmental issues. Knowledge of the Inuvialuit Final Agreement and the Western Arctic region are assets. The position requires occasional travel. Preference will be given to Inuvialuit with equivalent experience.
Brenda Frost Manager, Human Resources Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation Box 94, Old Crow, YT Y0B 1N0 0HONE EXT &AX Email: hrd@vgfn.net
Salary is negotiable and reflects job relevant skills, knowledge and experience and includes benefits. Please submit resumes & letters of interest by March 18, 2016 to: wmacns@web.ca
While qualiďŹ ed VGFN citizens will be give preference, all interested and qualiďŹ ed individuals are encouraged to apply.
Suitable candidates may be contacted for an interview. More information about the Council can be found at www.wmacns.ca
ACTIVE IN YOUR COMMUNITY
Task description: Friendly Visitor Volunteer Do you enjoy spending time with seniors? If so, please join our volunteer team! We are looking for volunteers to come in Copper Ridge Place once a week for an hour to spend time visiting a resident. During your visit you can play cards, read, or just enjoy spending time with an interesting senior citizen. Criminal records check required. Time commitment: 6 month commitment requested
Copper Ridge Place is Looking for Volunteers: Bus outing volunteers Task description: Enjoy Yukon’s Unique Places with Seniors Join the Copper Ridge Place Volunteer Team! Supporting Residents on group outings to special events in and around Whitehorse is a great way to spend time with seniors and have a positive impact in your community. Outings are led by professional staff. Examples of destinations: Yukon Arts Centre performances, Caribou Crossing, shopping, lunch or dinner events, curling, Transportation Museum, Wildlife Preserve. Time involved: 2 – 4 hours, generally once a week. Criminal records check required. Time commitment: 6 months commitment requested Incentive for the volunteer: Orientation/training provided Staff position that will supervise the volunteer: Coordinator of Volunteer Service and Therapy Assistants For more information call Catherine Chenier, Coordinator of Volunteer Services, 393-7508, catherine.chenier@gov.yk.ca.
You work for a non-profit organization and you would like to add your volunteer opportunities? Please click on http://www.volunteeryukon.ca/.
Community Services
HOUSE CLEANING REQUIRED with laundry and care for pets. 5 days a week 3 hours per day Starting April 1 $20/hour 5 minutes drive from downtown. Please text (no calls) 1-867-336-4112 THE YUKON HORSE AND RIDER ASSOCIATION is accepting proposals for the paid position of “Show Manager� for the July 9 and 10, 2016, horse show. For information, or to submit a proposal, contact Elsie Wain at yukonmorgans@gmail.com. Proposals will be accepted until Friday, March 18, 2016. FH COLLINS SCHOOL COUNCIL is seeking a part-time Secretary Treasurer to assist at monthly meetings with minutes, bookkeeping and banking matters. May require up to 20 hours/month. Remuneration is $300.00/month. Forward a letter and short resume, demonstrating your experience and skills to fhcouncil@gmail.com no later than March 27, 2016. Only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.
Miscellaneous for Sale We will pay CASH for anything of value Tools, electronics, gold & jewelry, chainsaws, camping & outdoor gear, hunting & fishing supplies, rifles & ammo. G&R New & Used 1612-D Centennial St. 393-2274 BUY • SELL ASSORTED TOOLS, hand, power, woodworking & mechanical, vg cond, 49 Redwood St, Porter Creek. 633-6553 ART PRINTS, Robert Bateman, End of Season Grizzly, Jim Robb, Caribou Crossing, Full Moon In The Klondike, all signed by artists w/glass & frames, 49 Redwood St, Porter Creek. 633-6553 WORLD HOCKEY Association, remember it? Two rare books, (history, statistics, photos). Exc. shape, $50. 633-3154
Are you looking for volunteer opportunities? Please check www.volunteeryukon.ca to find more volunteer opportunities.
Copper Ridge Place is Looking for Volunteers: Friendly Visitors Work
The Kluane Dana Shaw Corporation is accepting applications for two (2) full-time employment positions: Administrative Coordinator and Finance Manager. Closing Date: March 31, 2016. For complete details please email gclark@kluanecorp.ca
EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY
SENIOR POLICY & PLANNING ADVISOR JOB DESCRIPTION: provide policy and planning advice and assistance to the Yukon Land Use Planning Council with respect to the implementation of Chapter 11 (Land Use Planning) of the Umbrella Final Agreement and the Yukon First Nation Final Agreements. Advise the Planning Director and the Council with respect to First Nation governments’ land and resource-use management interests. Prepare written and oral briefings, reports and correspondence. Participate in community engagement sessions and make presentations to the Council, First Nations, government and the public. QUALIFICATION: Demonstrated experience in providing land use and resource management planning and policy development. Proven skills in: 1) developing or implementing First Nation Land Claim Agreements; 2) conflict resolution; 3) communication and consultation; 4) researching land management and planning related topics. A valid Yukon Driver’s License is a pre-requisite, as travel to Yukon communities will be required. Minimum of Grade 12 education or work experience equivalent required. A more detailed list of Qualifications and the Job Description is available upon request. The salary range is $65,653 to $80,972 with an employee benefit package. Please submit a covering letter with resume and three references before the closing date of March 24, 2016 to: Ron Cruikshank, Director Yukon Land Use Planning Council 201 – 307 Jarvis St., Whitehorse, YT Y1A 2H3 Email: ron@planyukon.ca Tel: (867) 667-7397 | Fax: (867) 667-4624 The YLUPC acknowledges Clause 22.4.0 of the Umbrella Final Agreement, Employment Opportunities for Yukon First Nation individuals. YLUPC thanks all who apply and advises that only those selected for further consideration will be contacted.
PORTABLE TESTING sluice, new Honda 3� pump with hoses & ventury suction, all new, view 49 Redwood Street, Porter Creek. 633-6553 SAWMILLS FROM only $4,397 - MAKE MONEY & SAVE MONEY with your own bandmill - Cut lumber any dimension. In stock ready to ship. FREE Info & DVD: www.NorwoodSawmills.com/400OT 1-800-566-6899 Ext:400OT. WORLD HOCKEY Association, 5 complete hockey card sets from the 1970s. Exc cond. $750. Ross 633-3154 CFL FOOTBALL cards, 17 different complete sets of cards, including early OPC. Almost 2,600 cards. $1,400. 633-3154 MCDONALDS H O C K E Y cards from 1991-92 to 2009/10, almost every card issued incl. 27 unopened paks from each year, over 1,200 cards, $900. Ross 633-3154 REFORESTATION NURSERY SEEDLINGS of hardy trees, shrubs, & berries for shelterbelts or landscaping. Spruce & Pine from $0.99/tree. Free Shipping. Replacement guarantee. 1-866-873-3846 or www.treetime.ca Canvas Tents and Wood Stoves Lowest Prices in Canada Tents will ship by Greyhound from Castlegar, B.C. Canvas Tent Shop, www.Canvastentshop.ca 1-800-234-1150 Call for Prices MENʟS BLACK shoes, sz 9, like new, $15. 334-8318 3 TON chain hoist, never used, view at 49 Redwood Street, Porter Creek. 633-6553 POLE BARNS, Shops, steel buildings metal clad or fabric clad. Complete supply and installation. Call John at 403-998-7907; jcameron@advancebuildings.com. CRAFTSMAN TABLESAW, 12, 220 volt, $200. 633-5569 YUKON WILDLIFE Conservation stamps, rare and unique collection of 13 stamps, from 1996-2008, beautiful artwork depicting Yukon birds and wildlife, $150. 633-3154 THREE COMPLETE OPC hockey card sets (1999-00 to 2001-02 period) plus some short prints. Over 900 cards. $150. Ross 633-3154
Wednesday, March 16, 2016 BOX OF 40 mysteries, paperbacks, various authors, $25. 633-3154 20 BRADFORD Exchange collector plates includes Norman Rockwell, Louis Dali Limoges, Grimms Fairy Tales, The Canterbury Tales, all in excellent condition, $10 each obo. 333-9012 REFILL THE SHED with super-dry straight-grained lodgepole pine this spring: $225 cord bucked/delivered. Text or call Doug Martens @ 334-7364 PROPANE FORCED air, propane heater, 35,000 BTUs, view at 49 Redwood St, Porter Creek.
YUKON NEWS DO YOU want baking done for Easter? Give the Golden Age a call with your requests. Cookies, cakes, breads, whatever you want, reasonable prices. 668-5538 ITALIAN FLOOR/WALL tile for renos, 13x13, 60 tiles at $4 each, 1/2 price, Rox griggio by Campogalliano; also 16 glass decorator tiles 12x3, Kenai sand colour. 633-5002
Electrical Appliances FRIDGE WITH large freezer space, view at 49 Redwood St, Porter Creek
HOMELITE 1 1/2 outlet gas water pump, view at 49 Redwood St, Porter Creek.
OLD FASHIONED wood cookstove, Heartland, runs on propane, 6-burner, gd cond, green & stainless steel, $3750 obo. Will deliver. 335-5192
2010 ARCTIC Spa hot tub, 8-person model, deluxe cedar trim, seldom used, cleaned regularly, $4,250 obo. Will deliver. 335-5192
BEAUMARK FREEZER, older, white, medium size, 41”Lx34”deep, runs good, can pick up Sunday March 13, $120. 334-2018 after 6pm
BROTHER CORRECTRONIC GX-6750 electronic typewriter w/extra ribbon and manual, new $160, asking $75. 660-4443 DUTCH WEST wood stove, front or side loading, cast iron w/glass front, good cond, $400. 667-2390 COLLECTION OF dogs books, all clean, vg condition, approx 24 books, $40 for lot. 667-4526 lv msg BABYLOCK SERGER, used very little, was $1,200 new, asking $500. 633-6711 after 5 2 4ʼX8ʼ Thermo-pane solid windows, 1 4ʼX5ʼ Thermo-pane opener window, $250 for all. 660-4302 APRIL CORNELL dress, size L, skirt size L, skirt size M, skirt, new, size L, $50 ea. 633-2236
TVs & Stereos SONY PS-LX 300 USB turntable, $75. 633-6711 after 5pm
Computers & Accessories IPHONE 5 Bell 16gb, comes from nonsmoker home, great shape, c/w charger & headphones, $250. More info call 335-2092
Musical Instruments PIANO TUNING & REPAIR by certified piano technician Call Barry Kitchen @ 633-5191 email:bfkitchen@hotmail.com
GOLD NUGGET initial, letter "N", made in Dawson City, $185 obo. 668-5644
BLUE FLORAL Fender Telecaster, excellent condition, comes with case, $1,300. 456-4110
ABOUT 50 Yukon Energy, Mines & Resources maps, scale 1:50.000, $6 ea obo. Call 867-399-3920 evenings
GIBSON MAKE guitar, black with pearl inlay, c/w case, $500. 334-7405
ONE WALL oven or can be cabinet, separate ceramic cook top & range hood, $350. 393-2784
MASON & Risch piano, Chopin model, apartment size, good condition, $1,200 obo. 332-0067
STEEL BUILDING SALE...”BIG BLOW OUT SALE-CLEAR OUT PRICING IN EFFECT NOW!” 20X20 $5,444 25X26 $6,275 28X28 $7,454 30X30 $8,489 32X34 $10,328 42X50 $15,866. One end wall included. Pioneer Steel 1-800-668-5422 www.pioneersteel.ca
TROUBADOUR T35 Watts Ibanez acoustic amp + 1 Shure SM 58 microphone, $300. 334-3043
SAVE 30% on our Heart of the Arctic adventure. Visit Inuit communities in Greenland and Nunavut aboard the comfortable 198-passenger Ocean Endeavour. CALL FOR DETAILS! 1-800-363-7566 or visit www.adventurecanada.com (TICO#04001400) WELDER, $250; cargo box, plastic, fits behind truck, $150 obo; DVDs, $3 ea; Blu Rays, $4 ea. 334-6043 YARDWORKS SNOWBLOWER, 2ʼ, electric pull start, 6 forward gears, 2 reverse, like new, $600, will bring to Whitehorse. 867-390-2244 3 DISPLAY glass/mirror cabinets, 2 units with hardware, 6 adjustable clothes display stands, perfect for a small business starting out. $800. 668-2414
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HURLBURT ENTERPRISES INC. Store (867) 633-3276 Dev (867) 335-5192 Carl (867) 334-3782
✔ Beetle-killed spruce from Haines Junction, quality guaranteed ✔ Everything over 8" split ✔ Prices as low as $245 per cord ✔ Single and emergency half cord deliveries ✔ Scheduled or next day delivery
EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY Yukon Fish and Wildlife Management Board Information and Communications Specialist The Yukon Fish and Wildlife Management Board (Board) is hiring an energetic, highly self-motivated individual to fill the position of Information and Communications Specialist for a 0.8 position (approximately 4 days per week). This is a permanent position and includes an attractive benefits package.
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Cheque, Cash S.A. vouchers accepted.
Reporting to the Executive Director, this position is responsible for information management and communications to assist the Board in fulfilling its mandate and objectives, which includes territorial, national and international issues relating to the management of Yukon’s fish, wildlife and their habitats. This position will support the Board in making recommendations to the appropriate Ministers, Yukon First Nations and Renewable Resources Councils on all matters related to fish and wildlife management, including legislation, regulations, policy, planning, research and programs.
DRY STANDING FIREWOOD 6 cord loads of 13 ft, $190/cord Phone for price on larger amounts *Bucked wood *Clean limbed *No rot *No green •20 years service in Yukon 334-9464 DONʼS FIREWOOD •Year-Round Harvester/Supply •Junction Beetle Kill •Daily Deliveries from Whitehorse •Competitive Pricing Phone 393-4397 firewooddon@outlook.com
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Guns & Bows LICENSED TO BUY, SELL & CONSIGN rifles & ammo at G&R New & Used 1612-D Centennial St. 393-2274 BUY • SELL RUGER MODEL 77, 270 Winchester cal, as new, only fired 10 rounds, green/brown laminated stock, c/w Ruger scope rings, $800 obo. 335-4749 or 668-4726
YAMAHA 2X100 stereo receiver, Yamaha single CD player, Polkaudio TSI series bookshelf speakers X 2, new, $575. 334-3043
WEATHERBY 20 gauge semi auto, Uplander, shortened version for women or youth, c/w full case of ammo, choke tubes, must have FAC, $700 obo. 333-0866
Firewood
RUGER 77-22, as new, 22 LR caliber, $800 obo. 668-4726 or 335-4749
EVF FUELWOOD ENT Year Round Delivery • Dry accurate cords • Clean shavings available • VISA/M.C. accepted Member of Yukon Wood Producers Association Costs will rise. ORDER NOW 456-7432
BROWNING LEVER action, 22 LR caliber, vg cond, $500 obo. 668-4726 or 335-4749
THOMASʼ FIREWOOD From Fox Lake •Long, hot burn •$220 per cord Call 334-3979
WHERE DO I GET THE NEWS?
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NON-RESTRICTED PAL course March 19, 20. Presented by Whitehorse Rifle and Pistol Club. For info call 667-6728 or 334-1688 BOITO 12 gauge sxs shotgun, 28” barrels, vg condition, $400. 633-2443 SKS W/FOLDING Strike Force stock, 2 mags, full crate of ammo, need PAL, $600. 334-8604
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Excellent communication skills, both oral and written; Knowledge of the mandate and responsibilities of the Board Strong information management and analysis skills; Knowledge of the Umbrella Final Agreement, specifically Chapter 16; Developing, analyzing, implementing communication/media strategy Excellent computer literacy; Website management, updating, maintenance and training. Strong project management skills; Good interpersonal and presentation skills; Knowledge of fish and wildlife management planning processes; Knowledge of the preparation and planning of public reviews, hearings, meetings or other events; Administering the production of public information materials including reports, printed materials, educational brochures etc. Knowledge of Yukon environmental, land claims, and resource issues; Knowledge of resource management principles and practices; Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously;
To view the full job description, please visit our website: www.yfwmb.ca Closing date: March 25th, 2016 Applications may be submitted in person, by mail, or email to: Graham Van Tighem, Executive Director Yukon Fish and Wildlife Management Board (In person) #409 Black Street (2nd däna Näye Ventures Building) (Mail to) P.O. Box 31104 Whitehorse, YT, Y1A 5P7 Phone: 867-667-5835 executivedirector@yfwmb.ca
RUGER SUPER Blackhawk, stainless, 5 1/2” barrel, 44 mag, like new, need restricted PAL, $900. 334-8604
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HK416 22LR. rifle restricted, $750; Chiappa Little Badger 22lr. NR $250; Glock 17 with Roni Carbine kit restricted, $1,200. 335-7154
...that we have accounts with both P&M Recycling and Raven Recycling? You can drop off your recycling with them, tell them that it’s a donation for us and they’ll add your recycling to our account! ...that you can submit your Independent Grocer receipts to help Mae Bachur Animal Shelter? Drop them off at the Shelter for every $5000 in receipts, Independent Grocers give the Shelter a donation
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WANTED: SOMEONE who can help cleaning a straight chimney at Lake Laberge. 633-2236
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WANTED: ECOFAN for wood stove, will pay. 633-2236 WANTED: 8Ęź camper, about 5 years old in great condition, and 4x4 truck for the camper, 3/4 or 1 ton, crew or ext. cab. 335-1830 WANTED: HELP replacing two windows in a cabin. Get an older houseboat for free. 633-2236
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2006 NISSAN Titan, crew cab, LE, 4x4, 167,000km, heated leather seats, sun roof, dealer maintained, summer & winter tires, $15,000 obo. 334-3725. 2006 TOYOTA Tacoma TRD offroad, auto trans, exc shape, well mantained, 206,000km tunnel cover, undercoating, DVD player, GPS, A/C, new windshield, brakes & suspension, $14,200 obo. 336-3470 2005 F150 Lariat, ext cab, 4X4, short box, loaded, new shocks & tires, 146,000kms, $10,000. 667-4540
Cars
2005 FORD F150 4x4 supercrew, 5.4L, auto, power everything, good cond, $8,000. 867-536-7081 2005 NISSAN Frontier 4X4, 4.0L, V6, 6-spd manual, vg condition, cold air intake, Magna Flow exhaust, new tires, $9,500 obo. 633-4215 eves or lv msg
2006 Mitsubishi Lancer Ralliart
Call or Text 867-335-7997
2005 HONDA Civic 2-dr coupe, 157km, new tires , exc mechanicals, good overall shape. Needs nothing, $3900. 668-7455
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2014 TOYOTA Tundra, crew cab, take over loan or buy out. 336-1129
2007 DODGE Ram 2500hd, 5.7L hemi, auto, quad cab, power everything, exc cond, Summer & winter tires, $12,000. 867-536-7081
2005 CHEV Cavalier, runs good, great on gas, lots of new parts, fuel pump, injectors, coilpak, high pressure, full regulate, 142,000kms, $2,200. 336-3922
2002 GMC Envoy, automatic, 4x4, fully loaded, new brakes in fall, new transmission 2 years ago, regular maintenance, 380,000 km, excellent condition, $3,900. 334-3710 1986 OLDS Ciera, 4-door sedan, vg shape, 77,000 kms, new battery, remote start, safety, $2,000. 633-4311
2003 CHEV 4WD Tracker XLT, well maintained, very clean inside & out, non-smoker owned, shaded side windows, complete tow system installed, summers & studded winters, 240,000 kms, $7,500 obo. 867-689-5907 2003 FORD Ranger, 6-cyl, 4x4, 2 sets tires, 141,000km, will bring to Whitehorse, $5,500. 867-390-2244 2002 F350 4x4, quad cab, 1-tonne, new tires, $7,500 obo. 334-9054 2000 FORD F250 4X4, 10-cyl, motor shot, tranny & transfer case in good cond, body good, $3,000. In Ross River. 867-969-2046 1995 DODGE 5.9L, Super Cab, DSL, auto, 12-valve 2-wheel drive, Hirise canopy, 3/4 ton diesel, Hankook tires, 284,000 kms, new rad, fuel pump, 2 new batteries, water pump, thermostat, synthetic oil and more, $4,000. Gus @ 393-4796 1990 CHEV Blazer 4x4, 6-cyl, 50,000kms on motor, new shocks, brakes, brake lines, runs good. 334-6043 1953 F100, independent air ride suspension kit, 4-link bolt-on rear suspension, lots of new parts, needs fenders, motor & transmission, $2,500 obo. 667-4540 FOR PARTS, 1994 S-10 blazer. Call 334-8256 for more info
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2014 TOYOTA Tacoma, equipped for back country travel, 24k, recent Toyota maintenance, exc cond. $28,500 to pay off loan or take over payments. 334-7580
WANTED: MAGAZINE “Victoria�. Will pay. 633-2236
2.4L Mivec 5 speed manual transmission. Power everything, A/C, aftermarket stereo & headlights, front strut tower bar, tinted windows, carbon ďŹ ber spoiler. Comes with winter tires on aluminum rims. Very clean. SEE KIJIJI FOR MORE INFO. Bright yellow! $8,000 obo.
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2014 RAM 1500 4WD quad cab, shortbox, 5.7 Hemi, remote start, alloy wheels, exc cond. Black on black, 118km, $19,900. 668-7455
2007 CHEV 2500HD crew cab 4X4, great unit, many options, trailer tow, fully serviced, new brakes & battery. 633-4311
1. You live in an outlying Yukon community 2. You qualify as having a low income (Whitehorse included) 3. Your local First Nation, town or village council has agreed to cost share with Humane Society Yukon
AVAILABLE FOR ADOPTION
2015 GMC SLT 3500HD, dual 4x4, crewcab diesel, black, 81,000km, $49,500. 633-4375
THOMSON CENTRE is recruiting two volunteers for our small in-house store, Monday or Friday, 12:00 to 2:30. Must be detail-oriented and comfortable handling cash. Please call Kathy 393-8629
You may qualify to have one family dog spayed or neutered for FREE or at a reduced amount if you fall into one of the following categories:
For more information contact Linda Priestley at 1-867-633-6019 or email linda.priestly@humanesocietyyukon.ca
We Sell Trucks! 1-866-269-2783 • 9039 Quartz Rd. • Fraserway.com
1000 REMINGTON UMC 115GR, 9mm ammo $400; H&R 1873 Trapdoor 45/70 Little Big Horn ed, mint $1,100; Kel Tec SUB 2000 9mm carbine, custom rail & sights, $850. 335-7154
WANTED: FREE-STANDING bathtub, small. 633-2236
...that you can donate credit at The Feed Store for us so we can purchase food and other items for the animals?
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Come for a visit and meet your next furry family member!
RUNNING AT LARGE... If you have lost a pet, remember to check with City Bylaw: 668-8382 If your lost animal has been inadvertently left off the pet report or for more info on any of these animals, call 633-6019 or stop by 126 Tlingit Street.
Pets will be posted on the Pet Report for two weeks. Please let us know after that time if you need them re-posted.
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Wednesday, March 16, 2016 FOR PARTS, 1999 Ford Windstar, runs, approx. 300,000km. Call 334-8256 for more info.
Auto Parts & Accessories TRUCK CANOPIES - in stock * new Dodge long/short box * new GM long/short box * new Ford long/short box Hi-Rise & Cab Hi - several in stock View at centennialmotors.com 393-8100 1994 TOYOTA 4-Runner, blown engine, tranny and diffs in good shape, $1,000 obo. 335-0884 215/60 R15 Blizzak, fits 2004 Subaru with wagon rim, used one season. Call Gus at 393-4796 1994 BMW 325i for parts, blown engine, interior and body immaculate, $1,000 obo. 335-0884
Pets MISSING: ON North Alaska Highway, male neutered cat, black & white, long fur, 4 white paws, answers to Tuck or Bert. If found contact Mae Baechur shelter
Motorcycles & Snowmobiles TAITʼS CUSTOM TRAILER SALES 2-3-4- place snowmobile & ATV trailers Drive on Drive off 3500 lb axles by Trailtech - SWS & Featherlight CALL ANYTIME: 334-2194 www/taittrailers.com RONʼS SMALL ENGINE SERVICES Repairs to Snowmobiles, Chainsaws, Lawnmowers, ATVʼs, Small industrial equipment. Light welding repairs available 867-332-2333 lv msg JO'S SMALL ENGINE REPAIR •Repairs to snowmobiles, snowblowers , chainsaws, outboards, lawnmowers and more. •Shop rate $70 per hour, •Lawnmowers and chainsaws $60 per hour. Call Steve @ 633-6314 or 334-1628 RECREATIONAL POWERSPORTS AND MARINE (RPM) REPAIRS Service, repair and installations for snowmobiles, ATVs, motorcycles, chainsaws, marine and more Qualified and experienced mechanic Great rates! Call Patrick at 335-4181 1996 600 Ski-doo F3, low kms, exc cond, inch and a half long track, matching leather suit, $3,500 obo. 335-5192
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Campers & Trailers TAITʼS TRAILERS www.taittrailers.com taits@northwestel.net Quality new and used Horse * Cargo * Equipment trailers For sale or rent Call Anytime 334-2194 Southern prices delivered to the Yukon
1984 ZETA 24' Hard Top, 350/260 leg, 15hp kicker, dingy, barbecue, galley, head, canvas enclosure, GPS chart plotter fishfinder, radio, sleeps 5, tandem trailer, rough water boat, bottom paint, many extras, reasonable offers. 332-1374
20ʼ FLAT deck trailer, twin 3,500 axles, recently reconditioned by Tamarack Welding, $4,200. 668-2804
ALUMINUM BOAT with Suzuki 25 hp, 14ʼ with solid trailer, runs awesome, $3,000. 336-3922
UTILITY TRAILER, has drop down ramp, high sides and back. View at 49 Redwood St, Porter Creek
16ʼ SANGSTER runabout, 50hp Evinrude, 2-stroke outboard, c/w trailer & canvas top, good cond, $2,000. 333-9013
WANTED: SMALL fibreglass travel trailer, good cond, like Boler, Trillium, Scamp, etc, very light, less than 1,500 lbs. 334-2174 or audeca78@hotmail.com
Heavy Equipment
TRITON ALUMINUM trailer, 8' x 12', can carry 2 snow machines or quads. High clearance, $1900. 334-7580
SKIDDER 550 Timberjack, fresh motor, has 4000L water tank, large winch, full blade, $20,000. Can be leased. 335-5192 WATER TRUCK, 1984 W900 and 4000 gal tank Bowie pump, fire hose manifold, new tires, certified, $22,200. Can be leased. 335-5192 2009 BOBCAT CT 440, 44hp tractor w/backhoe & many other attachments, $25,000. Can be leased. 335-5192 SNOW PLOW, fits any skid steer, new, 8ʼ, paid $3,900 & $700 for Cat lines & quick connect, $3,200 or best reasonable offer. 660-4443 •45,000 litre double-walled fuel tank Skid mounted Certified with pump & meter $28,000 •Various older camp trailers Skid mounted Wellsite • Bunkhouse • Offices Can deliver management@mercercontracting.com 332-3293 •360 kW, 600 Volt Enclosed Generator Volvo engine, 2300 hours $25,000 •D7E Ripper Complete Comes with extra teeth $2500 management@mercercontracting.com 332-3293
Aircraft 1972 CESSNA 150F, 6500 TT, 1452 SMOH, excellent condition, paint 6/10, interior 8/10, maintained cooperatively, call/text 867-335-2555
2005 30ʼ goose neck trailer, triple axle, 75 lbs ea, 2 spare tires, steel rims, chains & boomers, $7,500 obo. 334-9054 8X12 SINGLE axle tilt deck trailer, has ramp, spare lights, jack, $800 or trade for single axle 6X10 flat deck trailer. 334-8604
Coming Events ATLIN - GLACIER VIEW CABINS “your quiet get away” Cozy self contained log cabins canoes, kayaks for rent Fax/Phone 250-651-7691 e-mail glacierviewcabins@gmail.com www.glacierviewcabins.ca HOSPICE YUKON: Free, confidential services offering compassionate support to all those facing advanced illness, death and bereavement. Visit our lending library @ 409 Jarvis, M-F 11:30-3PM. 667-7429, www.hospiceyukon.net HORAIRE PISTE Chilkoot/Log Cabin: Multi-usage sauf du 11 au 13 mars: activities non motorisees. 867-667-3910
2006 YAMAHA Grizzly 700, c/w winch, swamp tires, camel-colored, fully loaded quad, $2,000. 667-2390
YUKON RESIDENTIAL Landlord Association Annual General Meeting on Tuesday, March 22, 2016 at Whitehorse Public Library meeting room. 6:00 pm. All landlords encouraged to attend.
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ATV SNOWPLOW with ears, good shape, $350. 660-4443 2002 SKIDOO MXZ 700 parts sled, 470 kms on original engine, computer, carbs, original hood, pretty good shape, about 75% complete, $800 obo. 867-634-5292 2006 YAMAHA Stratoliner Midnight, bought new in 2010, heated grips, power commander, theft alarm, 22,000kms, $7,600 obo. 332-3232 2008 YAMAHA Phazer, 2100 km, 4-stroke, 500 cc, 80 hp, cover, spare belt, block heater, will bring to Whitehorse, $3,500. 867-390-2244
GIRLS & Trans Club, Thursdays at 3:30, meet for fun, food and feminism. Free! Victoria Faulkner Womenʼs Centre, 503 Hanson. Info: vfwcgirlsclub@northwestel.net or 667-2693 YK-AK COFFEE House Saturday April 16, 2016. To get on Open Stage call 633-4580, bring potluck 4:30pm, help set-up 5:30pm, 7:00pm show, $5 United Church bsmt, 6th + Main.
It is with deep sadness we announce the passing of Duncan. As Per Duncan’s wish there will be no Service There are special people in our lives who never leave us…. Even after they are gone. But will be greatly missed.
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COPPER RIDGE Place is looking for volunteers to share time with seniors. Catherine 393-7508 ART EXHIBITION, "Leap of Faith" by Linda Leon, March 4th to 28th. Yukon Artists at Work Gallery, 4129 4th Ave. Opening Reception: March 4th, 5-8pm. YUKON PARTY Mountainview Riding Assoc. AGM on Wednesday, March 16, 6-7pm, Whitehorse Public Library Meeting Room. Info @ 667-2917 SALSA YUKON'S Latin Dance Classes, beginner and intermediate Salsa, Bachata, starts April 1st 2016. salsayukon@gmail.com for info
INTʼL FOLK Fest, 30th Annual, Skagway, Friday April 15, 7pm AK time, Eagleʼs Hall, on Broadway at 6th. Skagwayartscouncil.blogspot.com, 907-983-3222, bring Passport.
FIREWEED COMMUNITY Market Society Annual General Meeting, Thursday 24th of March, 7pm – 8:55pm, Whitehorse Public Library
WHITEHORSE CURLING Club International Bonspiel. Get your team registered, $240 entry fee. Great prizes, food & entertainment. March 24-27, 2016. Contact Whitehorse Curling Club at 667-2875
RESIDENTIAL/COMMERICAL INDOOR garage sale. Hurlburt Enterprises, Mile 5, Mayo Rd. Thursday & Friday, March 31 & April 1, 1-8pm, Saturday April 2, 10am-6pm. Books, furniture, toys, dishes, clothing, office furniture & equip, used Hurlburt inventory, tools, parts and more. 335-5192
SAY GOODBYE to winter, welcome spring with Burning Away the Winter Blues. On March 19th join a torch-lit procession at 9:00pm at the S.S. Klondike to a huge bonfire, where you can burn your blues away! Substance-free event OPENING DOORS from Yukon to Cote d'Azur features 15 modelling clay paintings of scenery from Yukon and Southern France. Enjoy lunch and art at the Hilltop Bistro! www.yukoncollege.yk.ca/about/pages/hilltop_bistro TUCHONI HERITAGE Society founding meeting on Friday May 6 from 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM. Place TBA. Contact Ned Ebbs. BCNU
SNOWSHOE FEST: Join LDAY for our 5th Annual Snowshoe Fest Sunday, March 20th at Biathlon Yukon. 2.5 and 5km loppets, games for all ages, bbq lunch, great draw prizes. www.ldayukon.com for details. YUKON LEARN Society free Computer Drop-in Lab every Monday from 10am–2 pm, self-directed computer studies. Instructor on site. Call Julie Anne Ames 668-6280 or visit YLS -2158 2nd Ave HABITAT-FOR-HUMANITYʼS AGM is Saturday, April 2, starting at 4:30 at the Library. Everyone is welcome. Building affordable homes, and building hope for Yukon families since 2004.
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CANCER SUPPORT Group Appreciation for Life, past or present, Yukon peopleʼs gathering. The next meeting is March 16, 7pm, Whitehorse Public Library. Contact Dawn 335-0009
M8 ARCTIC Cat snow machine, 162” track, new skidplate & other accessories, only 1,200 miles, great cond, $4,200. 660-5545
2004 ARCTIC Cat 400 4x4 ATV, 4,500 miles, excellent condition, $3,500. 393-3311
SATURDAY SALSA Dancing, 8:00pm to 11pm. Lessons at 8pm, Saturday April 2nd, Bd Party Room, use the door behind Epic Pizza, Leaping Feats studio, 38 Lewes Boulevard.
CHILKOOT TRAIL/LOG Cabin: Non-motorized weekend: March 11-13. Other weekends & weekdays: Multi-Use. For info: 867-667-3910
2012 KX450F motor bike, new rear tire & sprockets, very low hours, $5,800 obo. 334-6857
2008 SKIDOO 600 RS race sled, only 640 miles, runs perfect, 121” track, 1/3/4 lugs, $4,000 obo. 336-3470
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Ben was released from his 18 year battle with Huntington Disease, on March 10, 2016. His family wishes to thank Doctor’s Shoshtari, MacDonald & Kanachowski as well as all of the staff at Thomson Centre and Copper Ridge Place for their care and support over these past few traumatic years. A special thank you also goes out to Chris, Mike, Jason & Bob for all that you have done & continue to do for all of us. Ben lived to hug his children and family, to hunt, fish and pull practical jokes on any unsuspecting soul. To the end, his sense of humour prevailed. Ben was born in Fernie, BC then moved to the Yukon with his parents when he was one year old. He graduated from F.H. Collins in 1990 and went on about forging a life in the Yukon, BC and Alberta. Ben loved his grandparents dearly and spent many summers in BC with them. In later years he worked in the logging industry with his grandpa, drove truck in BC and Alberta, tried his hand at farming, mechanics and tourism but most of all he loved to spend time outdoors doing macho man things! Ben is survived by his partner Tammy & their children Wyatt and Caitlyn; mother Annette, step-dad Pat; brother Carl (Marjie) and niece Willow; grandma Betty, and several uncles, aunts ,cousins and friends scattered throughout the Yukon, BC, Alberta, Ontario, & the lower 48. Ben was predeceased by his father, Harold, from the same disease. Ben’s celebration of life will be held in Whitehorse in the spring. We shall post the information when we have chosen the date. Donations may be made to Centre for Huntington Disease, Room S, Westbrook Mall, Vancouver, BC VT B
2004 650 Road Quad 4X4, new tires, battery, filters, $4,500 obo. 334-9054
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ACTIVE TRAILS Whitehorse Association, next meeting Thursday, March 31, 7:00 p.m. in Boardroom #2 at Sport Yukon, 4110-4th Ave. All welcome! THE ALZHEIMER/ Dementia Family Caregiver Support Group meets monthly. A group for family/friends caring for someone with dementia. Info call Joanne 668-7713. JOIN THE Yukon Anti-Poverty Coalition for our monthly meeting, Thursday, March 17th from 5 to 7pm at CYO Hall. For more info: 334 9317. YUKON PARTY Pelly-Nisutlin Electoral District Association AGM. Tuesday, March 29, 2016, 8:00 PM, Teslin Arena Mezzanine. info@yukonparty.ca. PORTER CREEK Secondary School Council is holding its Regular Council Meeting on March 23 at 6:30 pm in the School Library. Everyone is welcome. CELEBRATE SPRING and the Baha'i New Year - Naw Ruz. Potluck dinner & dance with Speed Control on Saturday, March 19, 6 pm at Elijah Smith School. Family friendly, non-alcoholic event. YUKON SCIENCE Institute presents Global and Arctic Fisheries as if People Mattered with Daniel Pauly, Sunday, March 20, 7:30pm, Beringia Centre, Whitehorse and Monday, March 21, 7:30pm, Yukon College, Haines Junction. Free. 5 À 7 All in Music, one Thursday a month, French-speaking musicians perform at Baked Cafe. March 17th: Allo Gang (Jordan Lincez, Alain Desrochers and Christian Brideau), acoustic indie folk. zik-o-baked.afy.yk.ca HIDDEN VALLEY School Council is holding it's Regular Council Meeting on March 22 at 6pm in the School Library. Everyone is welcome. PLEASE JOIN the effort to support Yukon potter Lynne Sofiak while she recovers from treatment for cancer. Make a donation at: https://www.gofundme.com/8vk256e4.
LOG CABINS: Professional Scribe Fit log buildings at affordable rates. Contact: PF Watson, Box 40187, Whitehorse, YT, Y1A 6M9 668-3632 MC RENOVATION Construction & Renovations Laminated floor, siding, decks, tiles Kitchen, Bathroom, Doors, Cabinets, Windows, Framing, Board, Painting Drop Ceiling, Fences No job too small Free estimates Michael 336-0468 yt.mcr@hotmail.com
AL-ANON MEETINGS contact 667-7142
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ECUMENICAL SOCIAL Justice Way of the Cross, an ancient spiritual prayer pilgrimage with contemporary reflections on climate change caused suffering. Sacred Heart 4th and Steele Friday, March 18, 7 pm
BUSY BEAVERS Pruning, Hauling, and General Labour Call Francois & Katherine 456-4755
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FRIENDS OF the Whitehorse Public Library Annual General Meeting on Tuesday, March 22 at 3:30pm, WPL meeting room. All welcome to learn about building community events and support for our library
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EXPERT CARPENTRY •All types of projects •Commercial & residential •New construction & renovations •Interior & exterior •Fine finishing 334-5231
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS MEETINGS in Whitehorse
MONDAY: 12 noon Joy of Living (OM) Maryhouse, 504 Cook St. 8:00 pm New Beginnings Group (OM) Maryhouse, 504 Cook St. TUESDAY: 12 noon Joy of Living (OM) Maryhouse, 504 Cook St. 7:00 pm Juste Pour Aujourd’hui (CM) 4141B - 4th Avenue & Jarvis 8:00 pm Ugly Duckling Group (CM) Maryhouse, 504 Cook St. WEDNESDAY: 12 noon Joy of Living (OM) Maryhouse, 504 Cook St. 8:00 pm No PufďŹ n Group (CM) Maryhouse, 504 Cook St. 8:00 pm Porter Creek Step Meeting (CM) 1607 Birch Street THURSDAY: 12 noon Joy of Living (OM) Maryhouse, 504 Cook St. 7:30 pm Polar Group (OM) (Porter Creek) Seventh Day Adventist Church 1609 Birch Street, downstairs FRIDAY: 12 noon Joy of Living (OM) Maryhouse, 504 Cook St. 1:30 pm Yukon Unity Group (OM) #4 Hospital Rd. (Resource Room) 8:00 pm Whitehorse Group (OM) Maryhouse, 504 Cook St. SATURDAY: 1:00 pm Detox Meeting (OM) Sarah Steele Bldg, 6118-6th Ave. (left side door) 2:30 pm Women’s Meeting (OM) Whitehorse General Hospital #5 Hospital Road (Board Room) 7:00 pm Hospital Meeting (OM) Whitehorse General Hospital #5 Hospital Road, boardroom SUNDAY: 1:00 pm Detox Meeting (OM) Sarah Steele Bldg, 6118-6th Ave. (left side door) 7:00 pm Hospital Meeting (OM) Whitehorse General Hospital #5 Hospital Road, boardroom OM - open mixed, includes anyone CM - closed mixed, includes anyone with a desire to stop drinking
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ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS MEETINGS Yukon Communities & Atlin, B.C.
ATLIN, B.C. Thursday
7:30PM 5 Mile Group (OM) Tlingit Cultural Centre 1-250-651-7799
BEAVER CREEK, YT Friday
1:30PM Yukon Unity Group (Open) Health Centre
CARCROSS, YT Friday
1:30PM Yukon Unity Group (Open) Health Centre
CARMACKS, YT Friday
1:30PM Yukon Unity Group (Open) Health Centre
DAWSON CITY, YT Thursday
6:00PM Dawson City Hospital Room 2160 1:30PM Yukon Unity Group (Open) Dawson City Hospital Room 2160 7:00PM North Star Group (Open) Community Support Centre 1233-2nd Ave. (1st Floor) 1 -867-993-3734 or 993-5095
Friday Saturday
DESTRUCTION BAY, YT Friday
1:30PM Yukon Unity Group (Open) Health Centre
FARO, YT Friday
1:30PM Yukon Unity Group (Open) Health Centre
HAINES JUNCTION, YT Friday
1:30PM Yukon Unity Group (Open) Health Centre
MAYO, YT Friday
1:30PM Yukon Unity Group (Open) Health Centre
OLD CROW, YT Friday
1:30PM Yukon Unity Group (Open) Health Centre
PELLY CROSSING, YT Friday
1:30PM Yukon Unity Group (Open) Health Centre
ROSS RIVER, YT Friday
1:30PM Yukon Unity Group (Open) Health Centre
TESLIN, YT Wednesday 7:00PM Soaring Eagles Group (Open) G Bldg, #4 McLeary Street 1-867-390-2065 Friday 1:30PM Yukon Unity Group (Open) Health Centre
WATSON LAKE, YT Friday
1:30PM Yukon Unity Group (Open) Health Centre (Downstairs)
REQUEST FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Education Department is seeking expressions of interest from contractors for a Post Secondary Education policy and program review. This review may include developing options for: t Consolidating and simplifying existing post-secondary and education policies t Establishing policy priorities and eligibility criteria t Refining the appeals process t Policy implementation
REQUEST FOR BIDS PUBLIC TENDER ELECTRICAL MAINTENANCE AND REPAIRS YUKON HOUSING UNITS ALL YUKON COMMUNITIES EXCLUDING WHITEHORSE
SUPPLY AND INSTALL FLOORING YUKON HOUSING UNITS WHITEHORSE, YUKON
Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is April 6, 2016. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location.
Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is April 6, 2016. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location.
Documents may be obtained from Yukon Housing Corporation, 410 Jarvis Street, Whitehorse, Yukon. Technical questions may be directed to Lester Balsillie at lester.balsillie@gov.yk.ca.
Documents may be obtained from Yukon Housing Corporation, 410 Jarvis Street, Whitehorse, Yukon. Technical questions may be directed to Robert Janits at robert.janits@gov.yk.ca.
All tenders and proposals are subject to a Compliance Review.
All tenders and proposals are subject to a Compliance Review.
The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted.
The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted.
View or download documents at: www.hpw.gov.yk.ca/tenders/
View or download documents at: www.hpw.gov.yk.ca/tenders/
t Improving file management, financial processing and workflows t Financial analysis of policy options (short and long term) t Communication and outreach t Performance evaluation and assessment tools Please provide a listing of recent relevant project experience, particularly in the areas of policy review, program assessment and evaluation, and financial forecasting. This project is anticipated to take place in April to May 2016. Interested contractors should indicate their interest in writing by March 29, 2016 to: Paula Banks Director of Education Champagne and Aishihik First Nations 100-304 Jarvis St, Whitehorse YT Fax: (867) 667-6202 Phone: (867) 456-6876 Email: pbanks@cafn.ca
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Wednesday, March 16, 2016 ELECTRICIAN •Licensed •General Handyman Services •Light Carpentry, Drywall, etc •Free Estimates •10% Seniorʼs Discount 334-0974 RECLAMATION/RESTORATION SPECIALIST For over ten years, 2003-2014, I was part of a five-man team (D-8) who reclaimed, restored and returned 50-75 abandoned oil and gas leases to their natural state. I would like to do the same kind of work in the Yukon goldfields either as a consultant or operator. 867-689-1998 dougsack@outlook.com THINKING OF BUILDING in the Mount Lorne area? Contact Lorne Mountain Building at 334-2994 lornemountainbuilding@gmail.com or www.lornemountainbuilding.com NEED A LOAN? Own Property? Have Bad Credit? We can help! Call toll free 1 866 405 1228 www.firstandsecondmortgages.ca
Lost & Found MISSING: ON North Alaska Highway, male neutered cat, missing 4 years, black & white, long fur, 4 white paws, answers to Tuck or Bert. If found contact Mae Baechur shelter LOST: WHITE Iphone 5 either inside or outside the Canada Games Centre on February 27th. Possibly outside of Mt. McIntyre as well. Call 335-4498 LOST: SKIDOO ramp between Tagish and Whitehorse. Reward offered. 633-3012
Business Opportunities BRAEBURN LAKE CHRISTIAN CAMP now accepting resumes for an Assistant Director for 2016 camp season. Honorarium. Deadline April 1. www.braeburncamp.ca Questions, job descriptions and resumes to stellamartin1981@hotmail.com 668-4629 Skagway Tour Business for Sale Garden City Glassworks, Blown Glass Studios, Gift Shop, Cruise Tour Contracts Unique Opportunity Retiring, motivated to sell Our tours rated #1 in Customer Satisfaction. Potential for growth Turn key operation Allows off season travel, beach time or time for glass production. Located Jewell Gardens jewellgardens.com, Call/text Charlotte 907 612-0115 jewellgardens@yahoo.com
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HAY FOR SALE If you pay more than 10 cents a pound for your hay, you are paying too much. 1,000 pound bales, $100 each. 633-3388
Sports Equipment
Baby & Child Items
ROSSIGNOL SKIS & poles, sz 7 ski boots, new, good for -30, $200 for all. 334-7405
CHILDRENʼS CLOTHING in excellent condition, given freely the first & third Saturday monthly at the Church of the Nazarene, 2111 Centennial. 633-4903
SET OF Serratus bike panniers, new, $40. 633-3154
Furniture Livestock HORSE HAVEN HAY RANCH Irrigated Timothy/Brome mix No weeds or sticks Small squares 60 lbs plus 4 ft x 5 ft rounds 800 lb Free delivery for larger orders Straw square bales available 335-5192 • 668-7218 QUALITY YUKON MEAT No hormones, steroids or additives Grass raised grain finished. Hereford beef - $5.50/lb Domestic wild boar - $7/lb Order now for guaranteed spring or fall delivery. Whole, half or custom order. Samples available 668-7218 • 335-5192 HAY & STRAW FOR SALE Excellent quality hay Timothy/grass mix 60+lb $14.50 Alfalfa/grass mix 60+lb $15.50 Straw bales (baled in spring - not prime) $5 Nielsen Farms Maureen 333-0615
REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS The Yukon Horse and Rider Association is accepting proposals for the paid position of
Show Manager for the July 9 & 10, 2016 horse show. For information or to submit a proposal, contact Elsie Wain at: yukonmorgans@gmail.com RFPs will be accepted until Friday, March 18, 2016.
REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL ATTENDANT SERVICES CARCROSS AND TAGISH SOLID WASTE FACILITIES Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is April 4, 2016. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location. Documents may be obtained from the Procurement Support Centre, Department of Highways and Public Works, Suite 101 - 104 Elliott Street, Whitehorse, Yukon (867) 667-5385. Technical questions may be directed to Tony Radford at anthony.radford@gov.yk.ca. All tenders and proposals are subject to a Compliance Review performed by the Procurement Support Centre. The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted. View or download documents at: www.hpw.gov.yk.ca/tenders/
ANTIQUE DESK, Mahogany veneer, serpentine shape 50” X 16 1/4” X 30 1/4”, 3 dove tail drawers, 2 cupboards, Johnson Furniture Co., Grand Rapids, Mich. Offers over $500 accepted. 668-6147
PATIO SET, rectangular glass top table, 4 chairs, umbrella, exc cond, $150. 399-3710, Tagish
BUNK BED with double futon mattress on bottom, gd cond. Paid $600, asking $350. 689-6398
CAPTAIN'S BED w/mirror in headboard, 6 drawers, c/w 5.5” new foam mattress, 53" wide x 82" long, $475 obo. 668-5644
4 SOLID oak dining chairs, like new, $150 ea. obo. 668-7504
HOUSE FULL of furniture, all must go. View at 49 Redwood St, Porter Creek.
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LARGE ROCKING chair from Country House, immaculate condition, $200. 633-2837
CHINA/CURIO CABINET, 60”Wx76”Hx15”D, exc cond, $175. 399-3710, Tagish
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PUBLIC TENDER SOFTWARE SUBSCRIPTIONS RENEWAL AND SUPPORT FOR EXISTING CHECKPOINT FIREWALL Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is April 6, 2016. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location. Documents may be obtained from the Procurement Support Centre, Department of Highways and Public Works, Suite 101 - 104 Elliott Street, Whitehorse, Yukon (867) 667-5385. Technical questions may be directed to Jenny Richards at jenny.richards@gov.yk.ca.
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LARGE DARK wood office desk w/matching credenza, 2 metal file cabinets, 1 drawer type, 1 shelf type, good cond, 49 Redwood St, Porter Creek. 633-6553
WHITEHORSE AIRPORT SOUTH RECIRC STATION CONTROLS UPGRADE YUKON 2016-2017 Project Description: The work included in this contract generally includes the supply and installation of new electrical, process control, and instrumentation equipment, effectively upgrading the automation abilities of the existing Whitehorse Airport South Recirc Station and providing services for supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA). The equipment shall provide a complete and functional system. Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is April 5, 2016. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location. Documents may be obtained from the Procurement Support Centre, Department of Highways and Public Works, Suite 101 - 104 Elliott Street, Whitehorse, Yukon (867) 667-5385. Technical questions may be directed to Kirn Dhillon at kirn.dhillon@gov.yk.ca.
All tenders and proposals are subject to a Compliance Review performed by the Procurement Support Centre. The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted. This tender is subject to Chapter Five of the Agreement on Internal Trade. View or download documents at: www.hpw.gov.yk.ca/tenders/
Site Visit Scheduled for: March 30, 2016 at 2:00 pm All tenders and proposals are subject to a Compliance Review performed by the Procurement Support Centre. The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted. This tender is subject to Chapter Five of the Agreement on Internal Trade. The Yukon Business Incentive Policy may apply to this project. Bidders and/or Proponents are advised to review documents to determine Certificate of Recognition (COR) requirements for this project. View or download documents at: www.hpw.gov.yk.ca/tenders/
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DRUG PROBLEM? Narcotics Anonymous meetings Wed. 7pm-8pm 404A Ogilvie St. BYTE Office FRI. 7pm-8:30pm 4071 - 4th Ave Many Rivers Office CANADA BENEFIT GROUP - Do you or someone you know suffer from a disability? Get up to $40,000 from the Canadian Government. Toll-free 1-888-511-2250 or www.canadabenefit.ca/free-assessment SINGLE MATURE male, thin, 5ʼ10” tall, non-smoker, non-drinker, blue-green eyes, looking for single lady, thin, 57 to 70 yrs, godly, outdoor soulmate. 867-689-9894
PUBLIC TENDER PURCHASE OF 1 VIBRATION CONTROLLED TRANSIENT ELASTROGRAPHY MACHINE WITH MAINTENANCE/ SERVICE FOR TWO YEARS AND TRAINING WITH CERTIFICATION Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is April 13, 2016. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location. Documents may be obtained from the Procurement Support Centre, Department of Highways and Public Works, Suite 101 - 104 Elliott Street, Whitehorse, Yukon (867) 667-5385. Technical questions may be directed to Bill Stonehouse at bill.stonehouse@gov.yk.ca. All tenders and proposals are subject to a Compliance Review performed by the Procurement Support Centre. The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted. This tender is subject to Chapter Five of the Agreement on Internal Trade. View or download documents at: www.hpw.gov.yk.ca/tenders/
Highways and Public Works
Yukon Water Board – Application Notice Office des eaux du Yukon – Avis de demande Application Number Numéro de la demande
Applicant/Licensee Demandeur/Titulaire
Water Source Location Point d’eau/Lieu
Type of Undertaking Type d’entreprise
Deadline for Comments 4:00pm Date limite pour commentaires, avant 16 h
MS15-095
GY – Department of Community Services
Mayo River, Tributary of Stewart River
Miscellaneous
March 29, 2016
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Applications are available for viewing on the Yukon Water Board’s online registry, WATERLINE at http://www.yukonwaterboard.ca or in person at the Yukon Water Board office. For more information, contact the Yukon Water Board Secretariat at 867-456-3980.
Toute personne peut soumettre ses commentaires ou ses recommandations à l’Office avant la date limite indiquée sur le présent avis. Pour voir les demandes, consultez le registre en ligne WATERLINE au http://www.yukonwaterboard.ca ou rendez-vous au bureau de l’Office des eaux du Yukon. Pour de plus amples renseignements, veuillez communiquer avec le secrétariat de l’Office au 867-456-3980.
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